OlivawR: While this also might be true in the Linux world, I assure you that the % of people reading what they install on a Linux machine is way above of those on Windows.
Elenarie: Is it? I mean, how can one even calculate that? Because IT pros, and I mean actual professionals and not some idiots that somehow got a job in IT, should be reading every single changelog and support article in preparation for each update that they install. I don't know how you would calculate who does more reading, considering how much Windows is used on the enterprise side and Linux in the non-Windows service area.
I'd be skeptical of that as well. I know I should read what the updates do, but rarely do I have problems with updates in general. One of the nice things about Mint is that updates get a rating, so you have a sense of how important it is to read the update. I generally don't even think twice about updating the 1, 2 and even 3 rated updates, it's the 4s and 5s that sometimes need to be left alone.
OlivawR: - in the Linux world there's also the mentality fix don't format, so when something breaks in your Linux machine, you'll always do some reading
Which is somewhat ironic seeing as Windows is a real bitch to reformat as a fix compared with Linux. With Linux it's trivial to backup and restore your home directory and user apps. With Windows it's a real bitch and probably always will be as the profile directory just does not lend itself to being copied to a new place and is on the same partition as the rest of the system is.
