Re: am i the only one resisting this
+1 for The Resistance here. I dual boot my laptop now with Linux Mint 17.3 as the general use OS, and keep the original Win7 install for running hardware/software that Linux doesn't have drivers/versions for.
I updated the Win7 install yesterday for this month's Patch Update Tuesday and it seemed to take much less time than the several hours it had, until recently, been taking.