The forced reboots thing in Windows is nuts. I installed from Windows 8 media a while back, and to get from that to an up-to-date installation of Windows 8.1 requires a seemingly endless loop of "Check for updates. Install. Reboot. Check for more updates that didn't show up last time!"

It's like nobody has told MS about cumulative updates. You can install OS 10.9.0 and go straight through to 10.9.5 with a single update.

Maybe this comes from their "enterprisey" system of releasing everything as individual little patches so that IT can decide what to install and what to skip, but it's a nightmare for normal users.

Just a side note, there's a software called "Unchecky" that will automatically uncheck most "Free Toolbar!" installs.

But you're right, it's kind of staggering going from "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" to Windows'... whatever.

Heck, even most programs in OSX will autoupdate, not to mention Homebrew and Homebrew-cask.

Not having to reboot after updates is my favorite part of Linux so far.

Not having to reboot almost ever is also pretty nice.

How come I can't reply to "mod" below? https://i.imgur.com/k75wRiK.png

All Linux distros require a restart for kernel upgrades if you want to use that new kernel version. Or are you saying that Ubuntu actually forces the user to restart after a new kernel is installed?

Ubuntu forces a reboot on kernel upgrades fwiw.

I said almost. How often are you upgrading your kernel? Most of us don't upgrade very often.

Whenever the automatic update picks it up. So, basically all the time--every week or two, anyway.

>virus/firewall updates

You're still using third-party software for that? There's part of your problem! Getting rid of those would also kill of the "suspicious behavior" popups.