Microsoft is actually working on that. In a couple of years Windows will only be a GUI running on a Linux kernel.

You could have the .kpx file on OwnCloud then it would replicate to all devices.

Only on /. oldfags call each other newbies... :-)
...btw. I've been here since late 90'ties... and I am 50, do I qualify as oldfag ?

...need Oculus Rift for ?
Give me some real world applications and not just games and porn.

Yes it is, has played it on my PentiumPro in 1999 or 2000.

"It is done by designing the systems to be fault tolerant." Yes I agree... now go tell it to the developers and to the management.

Companies, especially financial but also any company being "risk-evaluated" need to be able to "continue normal operation" in max. 24-hours, if they can't they risk-evaluation will drop and then they will be devalued, which technically means that their worth will drop. For an A+ or A rated company such devaluation is catastrophic because loan are based on this rating and will need to be paid immediately.
That means effectively that any piece of mission critical software or hardware need to either be replaced or fixed in under 24-hours.

YES, I do work in IT in a financial company with "triple A" rating.
(and btw. there are not so many of that kind companies left after the financial crisis)...

What slows Windows down are not the updates. You can have a Windows server running for years, installing updates and never slowing down.
You user profile is what is slowing your Windows down (the content of c:\users\%USERNAME%), and NO you can't just delete it... try to login with a new user and you'll see. It has been like that since Win95 and Microsoft has never fixed this.

...is a custom built MacBook Pro 15" Retina and it is running Linux OpenSuSE 13.2. I used ThinkPad before but the quality has dropped to an unacceptable level (imho).

...I have an iPhone 4s (just because I don't want that "post Jobs shit"), my wife has an iPhone 5s (we are both IT profs) and we just rarely NEED to reboot our phones. We choose Apple because "it just works", we don't have the time for fiddling with a phone when we have users running on Windows 7. Yes, things got worse after Jobs because Jobs was the man guaranteeing that things were ready BEFORE they shipped but they are still quite good.

https://xkcd.com/538/

Until some dickhead looks at the movie, discovers a girl flashing her tits 'just for the camera' and deletes the film...

Normal film has been used fo decades and work quite well... and has the fantastic advantage of just looking at it and seeing what is on it and how it is ment to be used.

None of the hanky panky übercool digital solutions has a solution for your problem... but the good old Super8 does.

The digtal world has miserably failed the long time archiving problem.

Why so complicated ?

1. Remove HD from laptop
2. connect HD to ata2USB converter
3. read disk on any computer

If it really is a 386 it has an IDE/ATA interface.