What are the Brits carring on about these updates? Compared to computers 20 years ago, computering is painless—no downloading crap onto floppies and all that PITA gibberish. I had to flash a BIOS as it got FUBAR’ed and that was a bit stress-y but once done, it worked fine. The only option was buy a new BIOS chip for $80, back in ‘97! The main thing these days is you gotta just watch where you stick yer mouse to avoid virii!
I would not go so far as to call it “painless”. Too, many of the patches deal with software ‘exploits’ that can affect you no matter where you browse.