Being save is so easy…

…but it really takes a whole lot of time – with Windows applications.

Today when I started my computer at the office it happily greeted me with the message that Adobe Acrobat wants to perform an update. Good idea, after all we are living in a world where even PDF files are prepared to get admin priviledges on a unsuspecting person’s computer. Figuring the update would take about ten minutes I gladly hit the OK button. For the next 90 minutes I had plenty of time to do anything – except to work with my computer. That’s the time it took to install the 75MB worth of updates on a PIV with 1GHz and 512MB RAM (four reboots were the whipped cream on top of my update cake).

It takes less time to update the kernel on a Debian/Ubuntu system. When there is a security update for PDF on Linux, it downloads a library a couple KB big and installs it within a minute. It’s reliable. It’s fast. It’s save. It lets you do what you really want to do: your work.