My daily boot into Linux I'm prompted by no end of updates. Hundreds of megabytes of core libraries, fonts, office suites I never asked for but are installed by default, and of course, the weekly or so kernel update and getting to play the lottery as to whether your computer will boot again.
On Linux you can turn that off if you don’t like it. And if it installed something you don’t need, just uninstall it. You don’t have to moan about it here, just fix it once and then it won’t annoy you again.