Then it decides to roll back the update because fuck you, and then you’re sitting there disappointed that it took 20 minutes from you you’ll never get back
I want my 20 minutes back!
Oh, who am I kidding. I’d just waste them anyway.
You’re almost done! Let’s finish setting up your backup to OneDrive!
I’m not sure how much longer it will last but when itboots into that I used to just kill it with holding power button and reboot snd it would skip it lol
You can still tell it to fuck off, it just doesn’t go away forever. I think the limit is 30 days now.
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Me: I’ll boot in Windows to use my capture card and stream for a bit.
Windows Update No you are not.
Power button: fuck you.
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I just installed Mint on my work computer, wish me luck! It’s so fucking fast and snappy. You can even delay startup applications! 🤯
Good luck! Mint was my first distro too and still the one I use most, everything just works how I want and yeah, so much faster than Windows
⛩️ btw
Is that Arch or TempleOS lol
I read that as “Torii gate” and was very confused for a bit.
In my experiences, it’s Windows Update in the background causing the lag. Doing it’s shitfuckery things, planting it’s shitfuckery seeds, waiting for restart season to trigger the bloom…
It is funny though, “Updates! You need to restart!”
“Oh, okay!”
Restart > GRUB auto boots to Linux.
I know it’s a future me problem, but I’m in Windows for work like once a month these days. That’s fine.
You just reminded me.
At one point I had Windows take up two drives, one for boot and one for games. However, I only ever really used it for this one piece of software that I couldn’t get working on Linux, so I nuked it and reinstalled Windows on the smallest drive I have, just for that software.
Two weeks later I got the software working on Linux, and I completely forgot I even have a Windows partition up until now. It’s been months.
My windows “partition” for work is just a single VM image that sits on one of my two Linux-formatted drives.
The software I had needs GPU acceleration and I couldn’t be arsed fixing that. At the time I had an NVidia GPU as well, and that makes things extra shit.
I’ve got the images for Windows 10 Pro and Windows XP on my server, to use remotely in case I ever feel the need.
Unless you get that one update that nukes GRUB so you gotta find a LiveCD.
Oh yeah, I’ve had that twice. Windows Update not fathoming anything but itself existing so just nukes the UEFI and installs itself as dictator.
“Haha! I use Linux and don’t have to deal with this!”
Goes to work, has to use Windows 11 computer and solidworks
At least at work it’s ITs problem if shit goes awry.
Haha, i wish! They always go “oh, that’s OT software, yeah we have no clue about that, you’re on your own”
It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this:
gift from IT
Very true.
Good old SolidNearlyWorks
The “ctrl” and “S” key on my keyboard have the letters worn off.
At work, I get paid to sit around and twiddle thumbs while staring at the update screen.
Ooo, me too!
I also get to twiddle my thumbs when the connection is lost to the license server.
Goes to work, has to use Windows 11 computer and solidworks
My job pushed windows on us two years ago. I work as freelancer and don’t have much choice, it’s either “comply” or “leave”.
So yeah, that's how I work now:
Does that one come with fishnets? Perchance?
Me? Only unix socks
I see my friend’s very well paying role is pretty much entirely on Microsoft Azure and know I cannot agree with it or go with them down that road.
I’m so glad I can work on my Linux desktop. Arch Linux all day every day
I swear to god Microsoft does this on purpose to get you to restart and update
I know motorola/android does this. My phone will be fine for days to weeks, then mysteriously when an update is available i’ll have weird bugs or issues with bluetooth, or the battery, or screen activiation that gets resolved after it reboots and updates.
The good thing about being on an out of date OS. No more fucking updates.
Sure, but once they demote bad SSL protocol options and you’re forced to either upgrade or switch platforms.
Odr get hack. If you not care part of bot et you not need do anything.
This fucking dirtbag is going to reinstall edge, skype, outlook, and turn all bluetooth devices back into telephony enabled earrape machines.
Don’t forget, it’s also going to install a new, non-optional AI assistant in … *rolls dice* … Windows Media Player.
I went in here expecting Linuxposts. Was not disappointed.
Windows users cannot understand the absolute absurdity of “I can’t use my computer right now, it’s updating.”
Had to boot my work Windows laptop a while ago, because the software I have to work on uses some stupid Windows sign in thing, and I wasn’t fast enough getting Kerberos working before everyone went on vacation.
I’d forgotten that every single piece of software handles its own updates, and to install anything you have to like, go around to different places and download it. It’s crazy.
Nevermind the file manager making a dozen HTTP requests every time you launch it.
Like cavemen. Can you at least use homebrew or something on windows?
There are a few tools like that, including one by Microsoft themselves (winget), but nothing is centralised and not everything will be available via it.
I just want to get my work done. It’s bananas how much faff is in the way.
“haha it’s thinking”
Because normal users can’t be trusted to maintain their devices… Bu the time you’re forced to update you probably already have already had 2-3 months to do your updates…
I honestly never had issues with my windows installs because I just update on a timely manner.
Bruh, forced updates are a different fucked-up thing I’m not even talking about right now. (OS devs shouldn’t be concerned about whether or not they can trust their users. Users should be concerned whether or not they can trust their OS devs.)
What I’m talking about is being able to update silently in the background while you’re still using your computer. And if the updates need a restart to apply, that restart only takes as long as a normal reboot – you don’t have to sit around for 45 minutes looking at a blank ‘applying updates, don’t shut off your PC’ screen and unable to do anything.
Even if some Linux distro started having forced updates because they couldn’t trust their users to update, it still wouldn’t be as bad because the updates don’t interrupt your work nearly as much.
It was in all likelihood lagging because of Windows Update. The only way I would use Windows at this point is if it was Windows 10 LTSC with updates disabled or in an offline environment.
I’ve even gone through the frustrating task of setting up wine bottles to hold windows-only softwares such as Clip Studio Paint and Autodesk softwares.
Fun fact, ever since I switched to linux I’ve never had a system crash, unlike on Windows were every few days nVidia video or audio control would cause a BSOD. I’m actually convinced they make buggy and crashing drivers intentionally in order to push people off the 20 and 30 series cards, if somebody can prove it then it’ll be a multimillion dollar class action.
Good idea to restart, not shut down, about once a week if you’re using Windows. It only clears things out on a restart for some reason.
Good idea to restart, not shut down, about once a week if you’re using Windows.
lol, I had my Linux PC running for over a year continuously once, with no issues. Only had to reboot because a power outage lasted longer than my UPS could keep it running.
It only clears things out on a restart for some reason.
Because Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, decided to turn ‘shut down’ into a sleep/hibernate mode instead, in order to deliver faster boot times. (Instead of, you know, actually making the OS faster and more efficient for faster boot times.)
This is true for kernel updates in Linux as well.
Whenever I update the kernel I will need a restart eventually because it breaks the openvpn somehow and I’ve been too lazy to figure out how to actually fix it.
Still my Linux machine doesn’t nag me about restarts. The DE just pops up a notification one time saying it’s recommended.
it breaks the openvpn
It’s a version missmatch, that happens because of how linux handle updates, unless you either change kernel to a modified one that has a different behavior, you cannot fix it so it’s better to just restart after the kernel update
Shut down is only a power saving mode for quick boot from what i recall. Restart will actually stop everything.
Yes. You can disable fast shutdown in the power settings.
Really? That’s silly. You would think the only difference is no power in between.
Nothing is better than let’s check something quickly before I go on a two week journey 🙄
Yep PC does whatever for two weeks
Good. Twice the delay, double the wait.
Dedicate your computer to the speaker.
Ever since I reboot I’ve been hating you!
