Arch Linux user be like
I mean.
You don’t have to update every day. Or whatever.
My system is set to check for updates only once a month, because the rest of the time I want to be using it.
They like it
Fedora isn’t any better. 10-40 Packages every day.
Windows 10 users, I’ve been using kill-update.exe for years now to only update Windows when I damn well want to.
Disclaimer: before the inevitable dogpile, yes, this is bad practice. Yes there are many reasons why you might not want to do this. Yes, allowing your software to update itself whenever it wants is safer. No, I don’t care. If you don’t care either, this software might be for you.
Totally justifiable IMO. In my day-to-day life its much more important that my shit works when I need it to than that I get whatever potentially something-breaking latest hotfix patch for everything on my system. Put simply: My OS, and the packages I use, work. If I don’t update, I’m sure it will also keep working. When I have time for an update to break something, or want to pull in some new feature or patch, I’ll run an update.
I don’t know WHAT you’re talking about! My windows xp pc hasn’t had an update in YEARS!!!
It’s because developers have stopped trusting users to update and not become an expletive filled customer service call when not updating inevitably leads to a security failure.
Hate those forced updates, first because years ago when laptops came with hdd, the updates where endless. Then i hated it again when an update fucked all the pen tablet softwares and devices. photoshop and etc became unusable for a while, whas a nightmare. if they force only security updates im ok, but this is not the case, they add new funny features that i dont need and drop support for things that works and i use for work.
i miss the old control panel times…
I’m not ok with allowing a security loophole, they just call everything security and force it. It’s my device, I get to decide what software belongs on it.
neither do i, not long ago i updated because windows was screaming for it, then magically microsoft Ai assistant feature appears!
I never had a negative experience with Windows Updates
It just puts a notification in my taskbar but can be easily dismissable
For me it’s more like “WTF are they going to break this time?”
Seems mostly a vehicle for MS to try and force new products onto people who wouldn’t download them if they had a choice.
For me, it’s mainly “why tf is my old ass laptop suddenly chugging harder than a 40yo chain smoker?”
I had one back in the vista days (I had the pro version it wasn’t totally terrible) that bricked my laptop and I had to do a clean install from bios to get it working again. That was fun.
NixOS lets you update just what you want, when you want, and it even lets you roll them back at any time.
I update every single day AND my computer always works.
My view has always been that: “The most popular OS in the works will always need security updates frequently”. That’s true of Linux as well, if it ever broke Windows’ numbers.
That said, Windows has also fucked that argument by forcing unnecessary search additions and browser defaults in those updates.
You can just make that unnecessary Windows additions. No one asked Microsoft to force copilot or recall or ads or… On to our systems.
Enlightened linux users right now
Every once in a while I get a popup from POP_OS.
“Hey, got some updates. Great stuff. You wanna… No? That’s cool. You’re busy, I get it.”
Pop has been great. I feel like I own my computer again.
🐧
Penguin time
can’t you disable auto restart with some tweaker (e.g. SophiApp)?
I disabled it by installing a tweaker called Fedora. Tweaked windows right the fuck off my hard drive it did.
Windows really do be like that
To turn away from the “go hard onto Linux” tropes, try Windows Update Blocker (WuB). I’ve been using it to pick when my machine, as well as friends and families machines, update. Every month or so, you need to turn updates back on by using it and updating the OS, but it can be scripted to enable/disable updates at any time, if you don’t feel like thinking about it. It not only blocks if but protects from reenabling updates by that fucking medic service that will try to turn it back on when the machine is idle.
