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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I don't know about all the arguing and snark, but... I've been using Ubuntu (laugh it up) on my work laptop for the last 3ish years, and the vast majority of the time it really is "click install updates. wait 2 minutes. ok every program on your computer is up to date, just don't forget to restart Firefox". Can't think of a time where updating sucked. Sometimes I even go through the terminal just because it makes me feel cool to be a hackerman.

    I dread updating my windows pc at home. Cuts into my WoW time too much.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I've switched over a year ago and that's the thing that, looking back, sticks out to me the most as well. It's just insane that practically every application I used had its own update routine. Lesser used apps I had to update every single time before using them. Just constant interruptions everywhere.

    Winget is a step in the right directions, but it still has to build upon and work around that same shaky foundation, and it shows.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Tbh, with stuff like Winget and the respective GUI apps the process for installing or upgrading software is pretty much the same nowadays.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    get an antivirus that actually works and then use either policy plus or group policy to delay windows updates

    Delay feature updates by 365 days

    Delay quality updates by 30 days

    semi-annual channel

    Disable preview builds

    then use O&O shutup10 ++ to disable the bullshit and you're golden.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

    I don't like windows either, but updating with Winget in terminal works pretty good. Not as good as with Linux, but better than downloading every app via browser.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    The Windows updating experience, both the system and apps via the Microsoft Store is so fucking bad it's unbelievable. Shit just stops working all the time, updates fail, grinds the whole system to a halt etc.

    For several years now I've been unable to update apps in the Microsoft store in one go, I have to open it, click "get updates" and the circular progression bar goes to about 1/5 and then just stops. So I have to close the app, wait a few minutes, open it again and then press the "play" button for every single app that has updates for the download to actually start, nothing else works. It's been the same for Windows 10 and 11 across four different computers.

    There was a Windows 10 update several months ago, might even have been last year that just failed for a ton of people and it took months before it was fixed.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Remember DLL hell in windows 2000? Damn that was rough.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Chocolatey is the best option I've found for this on Windows:

    Chocolatey was created by Rob Reynolds in 2011 with the simple goal of offering a universal package manager for Windows. Chocolatey is an open source project that provides developers and admins alike a better way to manage Windows software.

    You can install & uninstall software from the command line and update everything installed through it with one command.

    It's not a real package manager of course. It can't update the operating system, and Windows applications aren't built for modularity and shared libraries the way Linux applications are. But it does automate application management like nothing else. I highly recommend this if you use Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    There's winget now too, which is the official Windows package manager. I've used it a couple of times now and worked as expected, not sure how it compares to chocolatey outside of simple app installs though.

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