[OT] Granny-friendly Linux Distros?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 5/7/19 1:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/6/2019 5:15 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Am I the only one who thinks this is completely ridiculous, and a shame
>> to our industry, that users have to put up with this kind of nonsense?
> 
> Heck, it would be so much better if it installed updated on shutdown, 
> not startup!
> 
> The same goes for Ubuntu Linux, btw. When I log into Ubuntu, I want to 
> do something now, not wait for 10 minutes clicking Ok, Yes, Install, Ok, 
> ...
> 

I feel exactly that way about all those auto-updating programs out there 
(seems to mostly be on/from Windows as that traditionally didn't have a 
package manager.) "This web browser has an update, do you want to 
install it?" No, I want to go to a webpage. That's why I launched you. 
Go pick up after yourself on your own time.

For OS-updates though, I'm not sure update-on-exit is much of an 
improvement. Imagine you're doing some work on your laptop at a coffee 
shop or a client's house, you finish up and need to leave, maybe get to 
a meeting on time...figure turn it off instead of sleep mode 'cause 
maybe the battery's quite low or you're just done with it for awhile 
anyway...aaaaand...Windows decides it NOW needs to spend ten, or even 
thirty or so minutes doing its update dance before it'll let you pull 
the plug and pack up.

I've gotten roped into reinstalling windows for people I knew after 
their installation got corrupted because they'd regularly face exactly 
that dilemma. And that was with Win7. Win10 is even more forceful with 
updates.

*That* is why people disable Windows Update. (Well, that and all their 
broken and/or malignant updates.) Amazing that MS have still failed to 
figure that out. Weren't they famous for dogfooding?