As is always the case with situations like this it's not that the update is broken it's that there is some common software that prevents it installing.
That should not be possible. If it is, then both the update and the OS are broken.
This isn't even a Windows specific issue, god only knows I've had Linux software break enough times that apt-get update fails on some items.
Yes. Apt-get is really pretty miserable. It just happens to be better than everything else. Although, to be fair, there is no permission-fixing tool, something that commercial Unixes had back in the 1980s. That's horrendous. Having to reinstall all packages on the system to fix perms is insane.
I'm not overtly trying to defend Microsoft here, but I do sympathise with the problem and it would be completely dishonest to claim only Microsoft has this problem.
Nobody claimed that. You wrote that whole comment just so you could wind up by attacking a straw man? I see why you didn't log in.