Automatic, non-consensual updates would be fine, if the laptop were designed for it. Case in point, my Chromebook gets updates all the time, and the little arro

Automatic, non-consensual updates would be fine, if the laptop were designed for it. Case in point, my Chromebook gets updates all the time, and the little arrow in the corner usually indicates I've got something and that I should restart. I have never, ever had a bad update across any of my Chromebooks. It is done in an elegant, non-intrusive way. The problem here is that in Microsoft's push to get Windows 10 onto as many machines as it can, they seem to have greatly underestimated the number of computers whose age or hardware renders them partially or completely borked by updating to Windows 10. And they seem generally unrepentant to the fact that they've strong-armed people into downloading an update that destroys their computer.