I agree! But at the moment, I don’t have any genuinely workable solutions to the issue, and I’ll have to leave it to those with greater expertise than me to come up with something helpful. While I have a few ideas, they all include things I know will never be enacted by the current powers that be, mostly due to cost, and the fact that most regulating entities enact short term solutions, similarly to how corporations seek current bottom line solutions while disregarding the long term profitability of the organization.
One difficulty with microsoft and windows is the number of updates needed and most are done automatic. But just about every day you get more stories like this
I’ve heard that Microsoft intended to do this soon so it doesn’t surprise me …
What difference does it make? Microsoft’s actions have become increasingly similar to those of the least trustworthy sources imaginable in recent years, if you ask me …
I check for updates every day on Ubuntu and almost every day there are multiple updates to install. Is this a Microsoft problem? I think having updates available to install is a good thing. The updates are either fixes or enhancements.
Not the way you might think. I do the same in Garuda with similar results. I prefer it that way too. The trouble with Microsoft updates is that unless the issue is extremely urgent, they’ll wait for Patch Tuesday to release it.
I used to work for a company that did server, network, and workstation installations for schools and businesses. The owner was a huge fan of Netware. It worked great. Over the years Windows gained market share from Netware. You probably remember.
In the end he didn’t seem much like a Netware fan. He was more of a Microsoft hater.
I like Linux and Ubuntu as much as the next guy and use it for work and home. But I also have Windows laptops for work and home. And manage both Linux and Windows Servers too.
There is a place for everything. Everything Microsoft does doesn’t suck. Everything Linux and open source is not great.
Not to me, though. With their system, I can be waiting for a month to get a patch for a vulnerability or zero day that’s being exploited in the wild already. Microsoft says their focusing on security, but their words and actions don’t match up if you ask me …
I don’t ‘NEED’ Windows, but I do enjoy experimenting with it by finding ways to wrangle it to my wants more than Microsoft’s, but I do find that my GNU/Linux installation lends itself to my experimentation much more readily than Windows …