After not having used a MC operating system since years I was recently forced to reinstall an XP sibling from 2003 and iteratively updating it.

The accustomed approach from GNU/Linux such as Debian/Ubuntu is starting synaptic or another package manager/update tool, clicking ‘go’: The latest updates download and install automatically – me leaning back having a Martini Bianco. A regular security update is normally accomplished within minutes.

The manual and complicated process of the MC OS took more than a day and involved so many user-interaction, more than twenty restarts, a lot of time waiting at the update website etc. The most interesting thing about the update process has been that the downloaded updates have not been the latest releases but instead needed patches for the patches of the patches. Even worse, it didn’t promote the Service pack 2 at all which btw was (apart from the fact that one needs to know about its existence first) hard to find.

In short: How can people voluntarily waste so much valuable life time?