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The reason for turning off updates is (I believe) rarely that one doesn't want important security updates. Just as Ubuntu servers have an option to automatically install critical security updates and for the rest you run `apt-get` when you want, the same should be available on windows.

Blaming the users is nice and easy, but Microsoft definitely deserves half of the blame (if not more).



That option to automatically install security updates is on by default in Ubuntu 16.04, by the way: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/10/dirty-cow-livepatched...

Snaps were designed from the beginning to push automatic updates, even of non-security updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo




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