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    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    "ah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess I'm out for the night guys"

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I hate Windows, but this has never happened neither to me nor my friends. (Granted I only have like 3 friends who use it regularly)

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I had Windows 10 do it once over however many years i was using it (was a fairly early adopter), and Windows 11 has never done it.

    Anyone who can easily use Linux can just make Windows not do that kind of shit, and not auto-update, and block the connection from basically all Windows processes.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    They'd prefer to learn nothing, blame the OS for not looking and operating exactly like Linux, and then claim it sucks not for the reasons it sucks but because they can't be bothered to try.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    It happened to me often!

    Part of that I'm sure it's the fact that I work nights, but Windows refuses to acknowledge that during my work hours is not an appropriate time to install updates.

    Simply stepping away to get a coffee or use the restroom is enough for Windows to decide now is the time to reboot and install updates for an hour or so and you better hope you saved everything before stepping away.

    As a matter of fact, one of those instances is the one where the update broke my bitlocker encryption and I lost everything that wasn't backed up. That was my last day using Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Was it your personal computer or a company managed computer? Either way, when to automatically start updates is just a setting that's easily set. As is the "pause updates for X weeks" so that you have more weeks to do an intentional reboot. There might be some major security patches they've forced through anyways? But I don't think I've had any windows update issues since like 2017 or 2018.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It was not managed, honestly I should've disabled bitlocker, I just never expected it to be a problem.

    As to settings for when it installs updates, they didn't seem to stick or were not always respected in my experience. I spent a bit of effort trying to make sure it wasn't configured to do that but it would still just go for it anyway if the system ever became idle after midnight or so.

    Anyway this story has a happy ending because after that I decided to give daily driving linux another shot, and none of the issues I had experienced previously still exist here.

    In fact, incredibly enough I have found on average that the games I play perform better on Linux now than they did on Windows.

    And my OS never installs updates without my permission, let alone forcing an unscheduled reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    I think that only happens when you don't use windows for many months, which might be true for Linux users

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    I switch to linux becouse I was having regular forced updates (that would then bluescreen, only to revert and try again a day later)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    This hasnt happened to me since vista days lol