Wow, a thread about supply chains and you manage to take a cheap jab at Linux. In response, try running Windows on a computer you only use once a month. You can watch it update every time instead of getting work done. Linux you can update while working.
"Linux is free, if your time has no value."
But also:
"Free software: more expensive than money."
Those old sarcastic comments remind me of Cygnus Solution's more up-beat slogan (they ported and supported free software like GCC, and were bought by RedHat):
"We Make Free Software Affordable"
Instead of just whining about cheap shots, Cygnus Solutions deftly channeled the doubts and problems raised by the first two slogans (which they didn't originate, but were going around at the time), into a successful service under the last slogan (which they did originate, in response).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Solutions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641664
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GCC-We-make-free-softw...
Only the major releases of Windows 10 need a stop the world reboot. Those happen once every six months. And it's usually only a few minutes.
That's for a home machine. I've seen some enterprise machines take forever. I have no idea how they managed to fuck that up, but it's on the IT organisation of those enterprises, not on Windows.
Server 2016 (and older versions of W10) are horrendous for updates. You can have servers stuck on "configuring updates" during shutdown or startup for over 30 mins. Server 2019 is much better though.