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Fuck Windows and Microsoft really. Today I had a meeting call through Teams first thing in the morning so I start my computer 10 minutes earlier than the call because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot and for Windows to be responsive. Windows decides to apply some past update so it takes 2 or 3 additional minutes which is fine, I am just in time for the meeting call. Well, 10 minutes into the call a notification in windows appears that the computer will restart in 5 minutes and with no option to postpone WTF. Imagine this was an important sales call, an emergency or something else critical, I might be fucked. The computer restarted I started my linux personal computer and I connect my bluetooth headphones to the it but no, they were connected to the Windows computer while it was restarting so I could not just call from it as the microphone started failing a few weeks ago. (I will just replace it, thanks Framework). So fuck my company for using Windows. Fuck Windows for developing such a nightmare OS with so shitty code. This was for sure a patch for a critical vulnerability, like always. And WTF this is Windows for a business, have a fucking super stable branch that does not need patches every other day. I don't care about your updates to the shitty weather widget, just have a fucking working operating system that let's me do my work. Fuck Microsoft monopolistic practices that keeps people and businesses from switching to Linux. There is no better publicity for Linux that Windows itself. Most Linux/GNU distros just let you choose when to update.

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 39 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

I’m no Windows fanboy but I have to use it quite a lot, at home and at work. I don’t know what versions or settings you guys have set up but I’ve never had a Windows update I can’t postpone, ever.

[–] palarith@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

24h2 is now a forced upgrade

[–] ranovich@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Me neither, until today...

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago

In corporate managed fleet of PCs updates are pushed by the company internal management systems. Some companies give you a 24hours option, some others (ahem, power tripping sysadmins, I know, I was one) say "fuck you and your work, you install when I say so". It's not strictly a Windows thing, it's a company policy.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on the settings your IT has set up... Mine will let you put it off, but after a couple times you're left with no choice but to let it run.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

but after a couple times you're left with no choice but to let it run.

That would be an user issue then. If I have an update I'll try to do it asap, if I can't then end of my shift.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Well for one, I'm not sure I consider it an "issue"... But yeah, it's absolutely 100% on me lol...

It's not always due to procrastination... Sometimes it's not convenient to immediately do it. If it's a long thing I'll just take a short break and go for a walk or something...

[–] gon@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago

That also shocked me. Then again, Windows does suck pretty bad.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

I have had several, but usually you had like 1 hour. Entreprise windoze 7 a couple of years ago, happened several times. There was also some update that bricked some 50% of the dell laptops lol, mine went through but my colleagues sweated bullets.

Now it's force restarting "outside business hours" or some crap. How stable.

[–] net00@lemm.ee -1 points 15 hours ago

I call BS on OP, just another ragebait made-up story.

Forced restarts haven't been a thing for years, unless the OP somehow badly setup their machine.