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.
Meanwhile I update for fun on my Linux boxes every time I use them. The experience is just… Chef’s kiss
Windows making me update every time - rage
Linux, first thing I open on startup is terminal for sudo zypper dup - joy
Mac Users: shit, my 2019 laptop can’t be updated to the latest OS-Version. And now I only got fake security updates.
Laughs in opencore legacy patcher
I fucking love running updates on garuda. Watching the little ASCII pacmans gobbling up the progress bar… And it doesn’t do it unless I tell it to so I never have the windows experience of “I just wanna play a game,oh look, 10 minutes of updates instead. Guess I’ll go make a sandwich…”
Yeah. Pacman/yay is just cute like that.
Arch Linux user be like
i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.
Yeah and also you can just kinda do it in the background without much concern about it eating all your CPU or taking forever like Windows Updates does.
Also won’t take several minutes when you shutdown to do the “Preparing Updates… Don’t shut off your PC” like Windows.
What kind of 2005 toaster are you running where Windows update eats up your CPU or takes minutes to shut down?
Even my 10 year old PC doesn’t do that.
Our servers do, my work laptop does, my old home laptop does, my home PCs do, … I guess it must be the updates and not the device.
Fedora isn’t any better. 10-40 Packages every day.
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
I actually like it
I’m actually encouraged to update often because if I don’t, the updates keep accumulating and I end up with 200+ apps and dependencies that require such updates. Not that I’m affected or anything, I don’t even need to re-start my machine, and pacman works in the background. So, It’s been a positive experience over all. So yay! Updates!
I don’t know WHAT you’re talking about! My windows xp pc hasn’t had an update in YEARS!!!
Windows really do be like that
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.
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.
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.
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?”
For me it was a mix of that, plus “great, so you’re going to close everything maybe was using, sometimes restart some of it, and everything is going to be on the wrong screen and virtual desktop. Now that I’ve spent several minutes getting back to where I was yesterday, let’s see what garbage I don’t want that you’ve added”
Linux has its own inconveniences, but I don’t regret the switch… It gets better every day while windows gets worse
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.
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.”
stays vulnerable to zero days
Yeah, so great.
Pop has been great. I feel like I own my computer again.
Enlightened linux users right now
It… only updates once a month, though. The second Tuesday of every month.
Any other updates are from the manufacturer/ software developer and not from Microsoft.
🐧
On Mint I enjoy updating so much that I got a bunch of flatpaks so I can update a lot more often. Might add more to feel more good.
That’s how I came up with my Username
