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Back when the most hated thing about Windows was the forced updates, I likewise didn't have that problem because I would update my system often.

For me, as somebody who never had issues and never lost work from it, the update process of every Linux distro I have ever used is still 10x better than Windows ever was.

And honestly that's a microcosm of the overall Windows vs Linux comparison for me. Ask yourself who the stakeholders are in the design, and of them whose desires get priority. With Linux you generally have the users and the devs (who are themselves users), sprinkled with some commercial interests that contribute for various reasons. With Windows you have users and devs seemingly at the bottom, followed by numerous different priorities inside Microsoft that range from "make the company better" to "keep this department relevant for one more quarter", you have they who are on the most high -- the shareholders -- and I guess now you have a pretty strong presence of the US government.

So the purpose of the update process in Linux, whether command line or a friendly graphical interface, is to update the selected items. That's it. As always, do it quickly, efficiently, and with as little disruption as possible.

The purpose of the update process in Windows includes updating the selected items, sure. But it obviously also includes turning One Drive back on. And history suggests that Windows Update's true to-do list has waaaaay more than 2 items on it, lol.