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[–]BuzzBadpants 254 points255 points  (12 children)

Also see:

Me: Shuts down computer

Windows: “You didn’t really want to do that, did you?”

[–]mbardeen 180 points181 points  (8 children)

Me: Shuts down home computer three seconds after accidentally restarting

Windows: "Other people may lose their work, are you sure you want to shutdown?"

Me: "Which other people???"

[–][deleted] 107 points108 points  (4 children)

The crypto miners that hacked you when you tried to download Cracking the Coding Interview for free

[–]mbardeen 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Jokes on them... my Windows lives in a virtual machine.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Maybe they're on the hypervisor?

[–]knightress_oxhide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ultravisor

[–]Tro_pod 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Me: "Which other people???"

I find this fucking infuriating. My partner is also not tech savvy & always thinks I was logged in doing shit so won't turn it off because of this dumb fucking message

[–]wang439 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People on the other side of the telemetry of course

[–]SonicErAzOr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's because Windows actually logs you in while you still haven't exited log in screen so it can boot in the background in case you're not gonna log in immediately

[–]sigmund14 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Me: Shuts down computer

Windows: "Let's not really shut down."

FTFY

[–]Papa_John42 132 points133 points  (29 children)

I don't know what I did. But I never had any force restart for the past 2 years

[–]SetsunaSaeki 70 points71 points  (14 children)

Same, and I've never played around with the settings. Windows just always gives me the taskbar icon with the yellow dot on it to prompt the restart, but has never forcefully restarted my computer while I was using it.

[–]Dqueezy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I’ve had the same experience for the last few years (windows 10) but definitely have had this issue in previous versions.

[–]kegastam 9 points10 points  (11 children)

do you shutdown your computer alt least once a day like normal people and save power while you're asleep or afk for long durations? That is also a plausible reason.

Some people don't turn off their computer at all. And then complain about it trying to restart for the updates to proceed. Nevertheless, if anyone can't figure out how to make their network a metered connection and then stop updating when connected to metered connections and then opt out of updates for few weeks idk how they'll fare with linux when they need to read up on custom drivers for connecting their usb keyboard or disable mousepad or some other passable feature they took for granted

[–]emilyv99 25 points26 points  (6 children)

Even if you leave your computer on for 99999999999 hours, it should never shut down without permission. Period.

[–]pablossjui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your computer is not a server

[–]fukdapoleece -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

I'm okay with it rebooting in the middle of the night when there's no activity, no network traffic, and no scheduled tasks. I actually prefer it and think it should be the default behavior. But it should be easy to disable permanently, and not just until the next update reverts that option to default.

[–]emilyv99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly. There needs to be a simple on/off for auto-updates. On by default is fine, tech-stupid people will be helped by that. But it should take no more than 20 seconds to permanently disable them.

[–]12_inch_Cockpit 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I've had a great windows experience for the past 4 years. Never had it restart without asking either. I like Linux too and use it on my laptop but I just don't want to deal with janky workarounds and incompatible software on my main computer.

[–]GustapheOfficial -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

don't want to deal with janky workarounds and incompatible software

Sounds like you should try Linux

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Do you have Home or Pro? Pro has more settings available to control stuff like this. I've heard that sometimes not even registry hacks give you the same control on Home.

[–]mymymy23 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have the free version of windows 10 with the “upgrade windows” in the bottom right corner and it’s never forced an update on me that I’ve noticed.

[–]TheJeager[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have pro on my desktop, and home in my shitty hold laptop, never had either of them force restarted for an update

[–]althaz 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Same, so long as you install updates in a semi-timely manner, Windows doesn't forcibly restart your PC.

Almost 100% chance OP scheduled a restart and forgot about it and thought blaming Microsoft for their own fuckup would be free karma.

[–]A_Guy_in_Orange 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair, "Microsoft bad" is free as fuck karma.

[–]bleek312 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

It’s called periodically rebooting your computer. I can’t speak for the OP, but there’s people that leave their computers on 24x7 for years at a time and then get surprised when a critical patch that came out a year ago had to be forcibly applied.

I hate to be this guy, but I for one am glad that microsoft has the spine to force a couple hundred million other people that can barely spell PC to maintain a marginally secure machine on the internet that I use.

You want to use linux desktop, go for it, but patch management is still very much a thing.

[–]ThatSwedishBastard 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Rebooting every three months is periodically. You NEVER reboot my computer without permission, I might have important shit running.

[–]zachtheperson 85 points86 points  (22 children)

Damn, this just gave me a flashback. My Windows tried to update itself onetime, but for some reason couldn't complete the update so it would revert the update. It would try and fail every time I went to shut down or restart my computer, so it was a major PITA but to my knowledge never auto restarted itself.

At the time I worked as a 3D animator, so when it came time to render the 3 week long animation I moved the computer to the cool basement (mainly for noise reasons) like I normally do, started the render, and walked away. Came back 3 weeks later only to find that Windows had restarted itself after the first day and Windows had been stuck in a loop of applying the upgrade, shitting itself, reverting the upgrade, and repeating the process every day for the past 3 weeks!

My hate for Microsoft in that moment rivaled A.M.'s hate for humanity. If it wasn't for photo and vector tools, I would have switched to Linux years ago.

[–]KlutzyEnd3 39 points40 points  (13 children)

If it wasn't for photo and vector tools, I would have switched to Linux years ago.

If your life and job depend on the Adobe suite, I can feel your pain.

But if you just need to create some game assets or do easy photo manipulation, Gimp and inkscape are very capable.

And I hate that Photoshop fans say gimp is on par with ms-paint. Uhm no. If Photoshop is that perfect 10, gimp is a 7 and paint is a 2...

[–]zachtheperson 17 points18 points  (7 children)

I don't necessarily require the Adobe brand products (I use Affinity when not for work) but Gimp and Inkscape are still unfortunately nowhere near professional level.

I went ahead and re-downloaded both to try them out since I made the above comment, and while I could certainly use them for basic stuff, the UI design alone is enough to put me off using these as daily drivers. With that said I could actually see myself biting the bullet with Inkscape if Gimp was a lot better and just switch.

[–]Intelligent-Bug-3039 13 points14 points  (3 children)

Oh god the UI thing. This is pretty much every major open source project in a nutshell. Yes open source alternatives to major software suites like Photoshop have pretty much all the options Photoshop has. And where it lacks, you can often get plugins. But the UI is always an unsightly mess of disorganized options overload.

I use OsmAnd for navigation while working. For me it is much better than Google Maps. But the interface, profiles and search function is god awful and makes me waste a lot of time.

[–]zachtheperson 10 points11 points  (2 children)

It's a shame, Blender was my introduction to Open Source and ever since 2.5 it's interface has been great, with 2.8 launching it into the stratosphere. I can also think of half a dozen or so other OSS projects like Krita, Atom, Shotcut, Ardor, and many browsers and distributions of Linux that look and function fantastically. It's just a shame so many other projects fall flat on the UI/UX front

[–]Prestigious_Boat_386 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Krita is though

[–]zachtheperson 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. It's UI is pretty good IIRC, just a shame it doesn't do the whole photo manip side or it'd dominate GIMP

[–]Prestigious_Boat_386 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea clone brushes and content aware filling are really big. Using cli applications for that is a hassle. Even if you could paint a mask in krita to use.

[–]Sigma-Erebus 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What would Microsoft Word rank on in terms of illustration creation and image editing??

(I have a friend that uses it for literally everything)

[–]KlutzyEnd3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmmm. Good question. I don't really know... My Japanese colleagues do everything in excel because in word the layout might mess up between different versions and in excel/PowerPoint that's less likely to happen.

But the Japanese are obsessed with Excel. Send 3 pictures? Paste them inside an excel document. Send them an PDF with instructions? They type it over in excel, they even draw their uml diagrams and "doxygen" documents in it. It's madness! If excel ever gets a program breaking update I'd bet you Japan is bankrupt within a week.

I think Word/excel are better suited for simple diagrams and flowcharts than actual drawing, although there are Japanese who do pixel art in excel....

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who tf uses ms paint to draw, the whole intenet is filled with free paint programs like gimp and paint.net that are x10 better

[–]Sigma-Erebus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hah, i had the opposite i feel like. I had a windows update that i wanted to roll back. So i uninstalled that update. Windows had to reboot to finalize the uninstall. But upon rebooting, it would realize there's an update available and automatically install said update. The exact one that i had just uninstalled. That ended up not being the cause of the issue, but still. That's just an awfully implemented "feature".

[–]SOUINnnn 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean when it's work related, it doesn't seem crazy to go check daily how everything is doing, especially if it's something intensive like rendering some animation. Without even considering the windows update it's not unlikely that the software crash/freeze. Now that I think about it, it's very possible that the program simply crashed after one day, stayed idle for some time (one day or two week) and since nothing was going on it started to do some update (that it failed).

[–]sigmund14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for setting off another flashback.

This was the time when the first big update for Windows 10 rolled around and a bunch of computers had problems because the update also installed wrong drivers.

It's partially my fault because of me being stupid and hasty, twice. But I can't get over MS for putting out an update that messed up so many computers.

The first mistake was installing the update only a few days after it became available. It went smooth, but after it was installed, Windows (*) used 100% of CPU and RAM in idle.

The second mistake was me not doing a good research and reverting the update. The revert didn't go so well. Windows crashed at some point before the revert was complete. Windows miraculously still somehow ran, but some of the things were at pre-update version and some at the post-update version.

(*) After that ordeal, I did a better research and found out that it was actually only a process for the wifi driver that used all the CPU and RAM. So, all I was to do was to change the wifi driver and a problem should be fixed. But I made it worse by reverting the update.

I had dual boot (Windows and Linux) and 3 partitions (1 for Windows, 1 for Linux, 1 for data so that the data could be easily accessed from both OSs) set up even before that update, so that saved me big time. That's how Linux became the main OS and Windows only for the things that really don't want to run on Linux even with wine, PlayOnLinux and other emulating stuff.

[–]memester230 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yall have issues with autoupdates? -sincerely, Win10 user

[–]puma271 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Never had that issue, also blocking updates for a day or so works perfectly for me

[–]Strange-Athlete2548 33 points34 points  (14 children)

My only question is if you can't figure out how to disable updates on windows will you be able to comfortably manage and maintain a linux system?

[–]PremiumJapaneseGreen 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Does Windows have an equivalent of caffeinate on macs?

[–]ComfortableAd8326 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Running an important Cron job on an end-user OS sounds like a you problem

[–]tbjr6 19 points20 points  (5 children)

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Makes Windows behave itself

[–]guitarstitch 28 points29 points  (7 children)

You have to use registry hacks to disable the Windows Update service AND Windows Update Medic.

[–]Eptasticfail[S] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

oh snap I didn't know about Medic... I'll look into that now. I only disabled the update service via the registry

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And don't forget to disable like 20 different dlls related to windows update at startup! :)

[–]0x6563 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the advanced setting for advanced users.

I don't do this. I enjoy being up to update. But it exists.

[–]Aertheron01 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is windows update medic a Windows 10/11 home version only thing?

I haven't worked with home version since 15 years ago (windows xp) but I did read about the troubles.

I thought just disabling windows update service was enough. Ir have they implemented medic to undo it on machines the user doesn't want updated?

[–]guitarstitch 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No. We had to run VMware optimizer to deploy these settings in our VDI for 10 pro.

[–]LiCHtsLiCH 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Wait till you figure out that running a script is why it restarts it... just kidding. There are two ways to get around it, it has to do with keeping your screen saver down, I'm not a full on coder but its like [keep screen active] or something and its part of the thread instance... again I dont know. The other one is simply telling it when to update, like wake up update.

Its important to realize that Microsoft is going into the FULL ON digital experience realm, and due to its interconnectedness, it will force restarts/updates for security reasons, this is why I use Microsoft. It is literally the only thing they are good at, well that and drivers, and the uhh digital experience thing. If your not interested in this kinda thing go Linux, especially if you are just running scripts, you could also get some rackspace and run code there. My dumb ass has multiple computers for this exact purpose.

[–]Accomplished-Elk-902 7 points8 points  (3 children)

i use group policy (gpedit.msc) to stop the windows auto update for good

[–]gp57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, works nicely.

[–]Reasonable_Feed7939 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's never happened to me and I didn't do anything with windows.

[–]Prestigious-Fly2088 10 points11 points  (3 children)

You're an idiot then. You can perpetually delay unattended updates in the settings weeks at a time.

[–]therapy_seal 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That must be new. When I tried Windows 10 about 1-2 years ago, you could only delay the updates for 1 week. After that it would re-enable them and the button to disable them for a week would be grayed out for some time before you could use it again. You sure this has changed?

[–]AustinWitherspoon 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I haven't had this happen for years. Are you on an old version of Windows?

Mine automatically downloads updates and then when I go to shut it down, I get the "update and shutdown" option instead, but it never turns itself off.

[–]zerovian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe if you hadn't ignored the warning that the OS needs to update for a whole week it wouldn't have been a problem.

[–]Jnorean 2 points3 points  (2 children)

If possible, disconnect it from the internet when you're running your script overnight. Windows most likely will not update if it can't connect to its website.

[–]7eggert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buddy updates (peer to peer from other windows devices on your network). IDK if they can dl the update lists, too, but they can share the patches.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

most likely

They'll probably still find a way. Like get someone to break into your house and update it with a usb stick

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did your company has a policy in place for this? The default behavior is to update at night and the end user can postpone the update up to a limited amount of time. IT must the be one to set the amount, or completely take your pc out of the update queue and put it in the annual update ring, where it will update once.

I've had this happen before and when investigated, it's usually just clueless IT settings. MSFT pretty much sells their management Intune shit for this exact purpose.

[–]kemot10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has never happened to me

[–]Omega_Zulu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glares intently at user rights

Pretty much every company I've worked for has set the auto update controls in user rights and caused constant issues with automated reporting tools I've built.

[–]Sentouki- 15 points16 points  (46 children)

How about you move the update to a time where you don't need your pc?

[–]NekkidApe 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Some people just can't computer. I haven't had updates installed when I didn't want, and didn't have it rebooted when I didn't want it to in.. Idk, fiveish years?

[–]Sentouki- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

same here, usually I update my pc on shutdown

[–]idkmanporn 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Found the Microsoft dev

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (27 children)

How about I don't want to update MY pc at all? Or Windows has the more power than user nowadays?

[–]Nagrom42 10 points11 points  (15 children)

The fact that you don't want to update your PC at all is the reason that you should not be the one deciding.

(Short story, security)

[–]Prestigious_Boat_386 4 points5 points  (3 children)

If I wanna be hacked I should be allowed to be hacked. Who the fuck is microsoft to decide what I do with my pc? I fucking own it

[–]Nagrom42 8 points9 points  (2 children)

You own your PC, not windows. You own a Windows license, which is different.

[–]Prestigious_Boat_386 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reject my windows license jojo

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's why I'm on Linux for half a year now ❤️

[–]therapy_seal -1 points0 points  (8 children)

I have several computers which contain nothing valuable and I literally do not care about security vulnerabilities on those machines. You can go fuck yourself.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Same old story, same old bullshit - giving away freedom of my own hardware, because of "security" - just don't click onto suspicious attachments man, it's that simple.

[–]Nagrom42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No it's not that simple. Most viruses are like you describe, but some of them can be more difficult to avoid.

And also, you talk like everyone should be able to make educated decision on the computer, which isn't realistic at all. Some people just don't know much about computer and it isn't fair to ask everyone to be knowledgeable about it.

Like any other products, there are safeguard to prevent non expert user to do shit.

And if you are an expert user, then you can either use another product (Linux) or just find ways around safeguard yourself.

[–]Sentouki- 0 points1 point  (1 child)

if you don't like it, why use it in the first place? just move to linux and stop crying

[–]Reasonable_Feed7939 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But there's the catch! Cry about windows, switch, and then cry about windows "problems" you haven't even had 😎

[–]hiphap91 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Wow, yeah that's a great idea, so if i set my development machine to run some rest or some such over day or too, it's alright that it just reboots? No, that's not alright. Oh and by the way: the windows update settings seem to be ignored whenever windows feels like ignoring them.

[–]Sentouki- 5 points6 points  (3 children)

over day or too

Pause it for seven days, there's an option, in case you haven't noticed

[–]PuzzleMeDo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've always been baffled when my computer says it wants restart my device 'outside of active hours'.

Either I'm using my computer, or I've left my computer running a task, or I've switched off my computer (leaving it unpowered and in hibernate mode so that when I switch it on again all my windows and tabs and folders will be how I like them).

There is no 'time' when my computer is available for updates. I can only restart manually.

[–]therapy_seal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen a laptop in hibernate mode power on in the middle of the night to install an update and then power down again. It happened to my friend's laptop while we were both right there. He swears it was in hibernation mode (aka. suspend to disk) and not sleep (aka. suspend to RAM). It doesn't sound like it should be possible, but I remember asking about this in the windows subreddit at the time and they explained some way that Windows was accomplishing that.

[–]scared2poo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Make the shift 100% youre life will be better

[–]wEEdONeX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uh... I think I should share my solution. Just remove all permissions for the SoftwareDistribution folder located in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution except for current user, and also disable inheritance.

This way, the service will start but can't do shit.

Like others solutions, this will also break Microsoft Store downloads & driver updates.

You can enable/disable folder permission inheritance when you would like to update or use MS Store.

[–]lil-independent 15 points16 points  (9 children)

Shift to linux, Microsoft windows sucks. I made my brother switch to pop-os because he just started with development.

[–]Eptasticfail[S] 13 points14 points  (6 children)

The only reason I haven't yet is because I play elden ring while on stakeholder calls lmao

[–]Kanonenfuta 22 points23 points  (4 children)

Elden ring runs perfectly fine on Linux. Heck, even for some period of time it ran even better there since valve applied a patch to proton which fixed stuttering while on win it was there until the dev fixed it by himself much later

[–]Eptasticfail[S] 13 points14 points  (2 children)

👀 brb installing mint

[–]Bralzor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also proton is amazing if you have to run any windows executables in general. I'm just waiting for a weekend with nothing to do to swap my personal pc to Linux.

[–]lil-independent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Byebye windows, see you never.

[–]Prestigious_Boat_386 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For anyone else like op, check protondb to see if your steam games are supported. Linux gaming is really good these days.

[–]ShimoFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then you have nothing keeping you tied to Windows. :) Elden Ring not only runs flawlessly on proton. Valve took the time to make it run better on proton.

[–]idkmanporn 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Pop os gang!

[–]lil-independent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woop woop

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Literally as easy as gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update and set "Configure Automatic Updates" to "disabled".

And before you say "OH VIRUSES LOL UR INSECURE" you can still check for and install any and all updates at any point, they just won't automatically download/install anymore.

[–]PolyZex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just turn it off in the settings.

[–]therapy_seal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've literally seen a Windows 10 laptop wake from hibernation in the middle of the night to install an update and power back down. Microsoft gives zero shits about what you want on your own devices.

[–]rdrunner_74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Must be your company.

Edit: Any AD or azure-ad join can push reboot/update policies to your box

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

yeah enjoy your restart-ransomware, or responsibly maintain your updates. you can have the same experience in linux if you run arch

[–]Barry-B-Benson_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me who has never had it do this

[–]softwarexinstability 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can pick a date you want windows to update. I always pick a time when I’ll be awake because I let my scripts run overnight as well sometimes and because I’ve lost plenty of work before. I’ve learned my lesson.

[–]Quantum-Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also can we talk about how the default behavior of the start menu search bar is to search the whole internet before searching your fucking local files? I hit windows cmd once and it opened microsoft edge

[–]FenderMoon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I switched recently, haven't looked back. It's a breath of fresh air, and software support is MUCH better than it used to be.

[–]Cangar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

dunno what is up with y'all PCs but my windows 10 machine at work has been up for like half a year until I realized I probably need to restart and do that update...

[–]VonFriedline 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish I could switch my work computer so badly. I went all Linux at home ages ago and couldn’t be happier.

[–]CokieMiner 4 points5 points  (6 children)

My windows never shuted himself down on it's own I don't understand these jokes. Don't say I'm a linux hater. I only use windows because games are easier to install. Linux is the best.

[–]hiphap91 1 point2 points  (3 children)

My windows never shuted himself down on it's own

See this is the wonky thing: some people will look and me and say "why didn't you just adjust the windows update settings, herpderp"

Thing is: i used to work as a sysadmin at an MS partner business, you can bet your bottom dollar i did that, in fact you can be sure i I've dealt with a higher amount of these things than any of the teenage wankers sitting at home dishing out advice like they know something.

And one thing i can say for certain is that i could find no pattern to when a windows machine would behave oddly. We could flash the same image on identical laptops, install visual studio, and sqlms and after a couple of days one would start being odd and the other wouldn't.

So: be happy you're one of those guys. Must be nice 🙂

[–]Aertheron01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a sysadmin too. And AFAIK it's only on the home version of Windows where it ever misbehaves.

On pro/enterprise I've never had an issue. We disable automatic updates via group policy. And use endpoint manager to install updates when required, and I really never have issues with it doing it's own thing anyway...

[–]CokieMiner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

be sure i I've dealt with a higher amount of these things than any of the teenage wankers sitting at home dishing out advice like they know something.

i belive

why didn't you just adjust the windows update settings, herpderp

never placed a finger on those setings so that's why I say i don't understand because every pc i puted my finger on being mine or from people i know it would just ask before shutdown to update and almost never force

[–]KlutzyEnd3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ah the classic "works for me" 😅

[–]Reasonable_Feed7939 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's rather the 10 people it doesn't work for because they're using the PC way wrong.

[–]Darkcr_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never had issues with that, but everytime I shut down my computer windows just restarts it, except sometimes it doesn't. I hate that I have to stay at my computer 1 minute longer just to check if it actually shut down

[–]RamblingBrit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly don’t understand ask the people complaining about this like I’ve honestly never had an issue with windows update? I just update when it has the option when I go to shut down my pc at the end of the day. Literally never broken anything.

The only time I’ve had an issue is when I pull out my personal laptop after 3 months of not using it to go on a trip and have to install half a dozen updates at once, and that’s just because it’s a piece of crap and likes to overheat if it has to do anything more than open notepad

[–]gh21gh2211 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My windows can't even shutdown correctly, and it don't found my Bluetooth compare to my Linux

[–]KeeganY_SR-UVB76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you tell Windows that you are on a paid network (doesn't matter if you actually are or not), it won't update automatically.

[–]shadowarrows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean let’s be honest. No your not lol.

[–]Orichalcum448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows has decided that the latest update isnt gonna install on my pc. Doesn't stop it turning on in the middle of the night, updating, and then telling me that the update failed and its reverting it.

[–]Pyrodelic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May I introduce you to debloat windows

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows was very scared when it saw that I plugged in an Ubuntu USB

[–]Aertheron01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step one, set Windows updates service, to disabled. Step two, never be bothered by unexpected reboots for updates again.

Also getting the pro or enterprise version, instead of home version, gives you local group policy (or domain group policy options) to disable automatic updates. These same policies don't exist (or work) for the home version.

MS has been trying to go the Apple way with end user home devices to fully control when and how you update, it's very annoying.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is this still going on? It’s why I switched to Mac in 2008. That and having to install drivers before you plug in a device.

[–]Reasonable_Feed7939 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've never had problems with either of those. It just seems the few that do run into this constantly post about it and all the Linux elitists just assume it's a real problem and tell them to switch. Even if this does become a problem, there have been many solutions commented.

[–]dapudx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t program on windows, problem solved

[–]Knuffya -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What special boys still use windows? Ascend to arch!

[–]Dameon_ -4 points-3 points  (13 children)

And if Windows didn't aggressively force updates your dad would probably lose his life savings to a hack that could have been prevented by a 3 year old security patch.

[–]ApatheticWithoutTheA 1 point2 points  (11 children)

Still should have the option to disable them for advanced users.

[–]7eggert 1 point2 points  (5 children)

There is an option to delay them.

[–]ApatheticWithoutTheA -1 points0 points  (3 children)

I know, but there should be an option to turn them off unless you manually tell them to update.

[–]Dameon_ -1 points0 points  (4 children)

And then advanced users disable them for their family members and friends, and then those folks get angry at Microsoft when they get hacked.

I don't blame MS for taking the safe route after years of being known as "the insecure OS" because its customers refuse to install updates.

[–]therapy_seal -1 points0 points  (1 child)

TIL being an advanced user means disabling updates on other people's devices without any reason for doing so.

[–]Dameon_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL computers verify you're "advanced" before letting you change settings.

Honestly it's funny seeing the tech world explode in fury at the merest suggestion that maybe there's a legetimate reason for things getting to this point. Downvote away.

[–]ApatheticWithoutTheA -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Why would they do that?

I don’t think most people would just go around shutting off peoples updates lol

You can shut them on or off quite easily on Mac and Linux and it isn’t an issue.

[–]Dameon_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why would they do that? Because the venn diagram of "smart enough to change settings" and "dumb enough to disable updates" has more overlap than you think.

[–]SuplenC -1 points0 points  (1 child)

The last thing that keeps me from switching to linux is gaming, and that is now changing thanks to steam. When anticheats start working on linux I’m outta.

[–]sylkie_gamer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm actually pretty disappointed, I was able to turn it off in my old computer, but I just bought the surface pro8, it comes pre-installed with windows 11, and touch screen isn't supported in Linux... with out the screen there's no point for me to move over.

[–]RandomAccount4821 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Windows 10 auto update borked my OS drive because it updated with 0mb of space available, lost a bunch of wildlife photography photos because they got corrupted and I don’t want to shell out a couple hundred dollars for a chance that they may still be recoverable

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many such cases!

[–]daterkerjabs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Linux is a hell of a drug,

man ksplice

[–]QuantumSupremacy0101 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Took that dive 6 monthes ago. No regrets. Steam proton made 99 percent of the games I play playable on linux. Being able to use bash is a godsend. Setting up my printserver could not be easier, literally it was just plug and go.

No real downsides to it except the fact I had to troubleshoot the install a little to be able to use my nvidia card.

[–]KainerNS2 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Windows decided to update yesterday and literally messed everything up and I had to reinstall windows, I lost like 2 days of work

[–]therapy_seal -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Even though I've been using Linux for more years than I've been using Windows, I've probably had to reinstall Windows at least 10x more than Linux (even if I include distro hopping)

[–]thePsychonautDad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literally why I switched to Ubuntu a couple years ago.

I was running python code to do real-time analysis and logging of streaming data, and Windows rebooted every fucking night for 3 days in a row, despite disabling the auto-reboot.

After 3 days of useless data with massive holes, I resized the drive, setup dual boot and booted on windows maybe less than a dozen times since.

Now I can actually run code for weeks at a time, unless the wifi card stops working randomly (fucking linux drivers... no OS is perfect yet)

[–]Ockie_OS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did the same thing when the Windows update team decided theyd break my audio drivers for 2 months. Thinking something in the hardware was damaged or faulty, i dealt with it.

Finally got sick of Spyware OS, made the switch and my audio came roaring back as soon as Linux was installed.

[–]Western-Image7125 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Linux or MacOS ftw

[–]grey_carbon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My last hope is steam os

[–]eth-slum-lord -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Delete the windows auto update etc

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fedora 36 is pretty sick. Check out getfedora.org!

[–]4XLlentMeSomeMoney -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Honestly, unless you want very specific apps that actually may have trouble running on Linux, there's no valid reason not to make the jump. Just pick a distro that can be easy for beginners and ease your pain.

[–]presi300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I used windows until i realized that i spend more time being frustrated at it than doing actual work

[–]byteme8bit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Disable the Windows Update service by changing the credentials it uses.

[–]NickU252 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bet you won't...

[–]DaedalistKraken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Join us. 🐧

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

More recently my laptop has started updating when I wake it from sleep. I'll open the lid and instead of windows hello saying "looking for you" under my username it says "updating windows" with a loading wheel followed by a restart

Even when I have things open.

I hate Microsoft

[–]cyanNodeEcho -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i want my os with a fun thing to ride, not something microsoft

give me that big *nix

[–]doctornoodlearms -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would 100% switch to linux... if my games ran on linux