Repairing those patches on your lawn can be a fun and rewarding experience. Putting patches on trousers can be a trend setting - or breaking -experience. Some may enjoy the process of patching up their networking to get the best out of their network hardware and infrastructure, but few people I know enjoy patching their computers.

Why do we hate it so?

Well for one, patching can cause more problems than it solves. Untested patches cause faults, and having incompatible patches on different machines can cause interoperability and stability issues. Even just applying patches effectively is problematic. Failing to commit a patch can be just as bad when a virus or problem hits.