Well, remember that Windows is designed to be “all-inclusive,” so the kernel is much more open than your run-of-the-mill generic Nix kernel. Microsoft also only patches once a month. I’m updating my Nix machines quite often, depending on Landscape alerts from my Ubuntu clusters.
i hope that is a better utility than Apper is with OpenSUSE. More often than not i have to go into YaST to install a dependency that Apper can't handle.