On 4/19/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly: > On 19/04/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:07 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote: >> > For other issues: >> > >> > 1) reboot >> >> Rarely needed on Linux, even for major configuration changes. Needed >> all the time with Windows, repeatedly, and a major waste of time. A few >> seconds of reconfiguring something on Linux becomes minutes on Windows. > > Last semester in my physics course, right in the middle of a lecture, > the professor's computer informed us that we had 4 minutes until > reboot, due to updates that had automatically been downloaded and > installed. He had to stop the lecture, reboot, and then find his > place. During this time I took the opportunity to mention how > rediculous that is, without mentioning that I don't use windows, and I > was told that I'm stupid for not updating my own computer regularly. > Apparently, reboots in the middle of work are common parts of the > windows workflow. Worse, people accept that because it's the only way > to be 'safe'. I've never seen Windows do that. What I have seen it do is say "Windows will be restarted in 4 minutes [cancel]"
On more than one occasion, I have hit Cancel, only to have Windows restart - luckily, I don't trust it with much of my data anyways. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
