I was at a Chinese restaurant on Rhodes about 15 years ago, where they served food windows update style.

We ordered off some menu written in Chinese and Greek letters and in a probably wrongly translated German too, so we had no idea of what we actually ordered. Just accepting the terms, right?

Then they started serving food.

We ate through 3 dishes and was about being full thinking this was a great deal, but then they just served another meal, and like, okay.. let's have a taste, and then it just kept coming in table servings instead of individual servings. Every time we emptied a plate theyd bring in something else. We never asked them for anything though.

A few servings in we realised how we'd misinterpreted the menu and said, ok enough is enough, and they were like "but you must have the dessert, it's part of the price, you already paid" (we hadn't actually paid then, but I suppose they meant"included") and so well we ate another three rounds of ice-cream, sugar-fried dumplings and fruit, to the point where I had to stand up and say "No more food! Please no more!", and the waiter was "More food yes coming up!". We stopped her and just stood up, throwing a bunch of money on the table according to our order and hoping it was enough. The waiter then came back with change.

Microsoft wouldn't return your change.

Anyway.. epilogue. I get it now. Chinese custom is to leave food when you're done and an empty plate is a request for more. I was on Rhodes 2 years ago, and tried to find it again, but the restaurant seemed to be gone. There was a kebab shop instead.

Ubuntu Repos: Sometimes runs out of food or accidentally spills two trays together

Fedora Repos: New plates every week

Debian Repos: Same 3 meals that are 5 star rated

Arch Repos: A machine gun that continuously fires pulverized food at your mouth

sometimes the linux updates are negative calories

Windows XP enjoyer: no updates 😎

Windows: 1GB of download, one bug fix or two. Linux: 20MB, total refactor or some major feature

I would like the rice and bean update but not the other identical rice and bean plate that is rotated 180 degrees.

Either way I'm getting diarrhea

The dopamine from updates is real. After using an arch based distro for awhile, I switched to one with weekly updates instead. I was surprised by how disappointing it was to check for updates and not have any available.

When does Microsoft add another search bar? I need it so bad

The updates were never the issue, It was having them get in the way of what you were currently doing.

I would say I don't remember updates bothering me as much back on Windows 7? I don't recall them suddenly shutting down my computer when I was in the middle of a game or work, Only to fail and hold my PC hostage for half an hour..

tbh the linux updates don't look terribly delicious either

Laughs in unattended-upgrades

This isn't fair.

There's a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren't updating or failing to update, and it's not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.

In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.

--noconfirm makes this just an IV of goop straight into my computer's arm.

Please... no more. I can't possibly hold all these updates.

At least they arent forced ;D

Chrome is the one I see all the freakin time on Linux .... sometimes it's once a week but it's more like every two weeks they completely update the entire software, get rid of the old and install a new version. It wouldn't be a big deal but if you've tweaked any changes with one version, they get wiped everytime which forces everyone to stick to the software and never change it ever at all.

For the record, I use Firefox and only keep Chrome if I need the browser for any reason ... like casting.