content: What surprises me most is that Windows 10 doesn't actually allow you to turn auto-updates off unless you're on a wireless connection.  The distinction is pretty arbitrary, and means that my wired desktop is going to be eating my bandwidth cap without my say in the matter.  I ended up switching my desktop to Fedora Linux since I only use a handful of programs on it that all have Linux versions.    I'm not sure how Apple handles updates, but I appreciate that Fedora allows me to update on my schedule and also supports delta updates so I'm not downloading any redundant data.