• rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    2 years ago

    Just… don’t install the update?

    …oh right, you don’t actually own your computer under Windows.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    We joke / complain about this all the time at work. Boss puts in some drop-everything emergency ticket.

    Windows Update: Imma let you finish, but first I gotta do some work 'round here.

  • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
    72·
    2 years ago

    First of I run linux on my personal machine.
    Second, I shut down my work machine at the end of the day and if there is an update - let it update. The result? Not a single problem with windows updates in years! Strange, I know.

    Sidenote: I always thought people were partially making fun of windows updates because you have to reboot all the time. I have to log out to switch from integrated to dedicated graphics in Linux and pretty much 90% of all updates require a reboot. And to conserve battery I have to shut down the laptop anyway, since hibernation is but a dream. But whatever, it’s not a competition.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      When you have a nice setup in programming (compiler, database, diverse docs, shells etc), you don’t want to shut all that down. If you can, good for you!

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 years ago

    It must install the ads regarding windows 11 and how you don’t qualify for it.

  • SpaceOctopus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Windows updates always release on the second Tuesday of every month. They have been doing that for 20 years or so. How does anyone get surprised by them? The only out of line updates are critical security fixes for actively exploited issues and those are rare.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 years ago

      It’s not the surprise. It’s the soul crushing, unavoidable inconvenience of never having any say as ads get forced, new unwanted features get added, more AI bullshit injected, more updates now, no matter what you have going on… for all time.

      It’s the fact that there is no choice for users but to just accept that Microsoft is forcing them to turn the computer they had last year into a totally different computer this year.

  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world
    54·
    2 years ago

    I feel like now both linux users and vegans fill the same social niche of being the most defensive and annoying person in the room.

    • udon@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Never met that vegan everyone is talking about, but I did meet some of those linux users. More than that Mac OS users, though

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      I’m a Linux user but a meat eater. So from our slice of pie, it ain’t our fault you way to pay for a shitty product.