I like the part where I was leaving work and would shutdown my laptop, only for windows update to run for a fucking hour.

And windows doesn't just work. It works when it does and doesn't when it doesn't. At least with a *nix system, I have hope that there's a solution when it doesn't. Plus most of the "it doesn't just work" bullshit are just retards that don't want to rtfm and edit a cfg. Smfh.