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Also for forcing restarts for everything. Back when I cared I needed to I used to use ksplice to patch linux without rebooting. If Microsoft made something like
by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Also for forcing restarts for everything. Back when I cared I needed to I used to use ksplice to patch linux without rebooting. If Microsoft made something like this it would stop people switching off the updates.
- masklinn 9y ago> Also for forcing restarts for everything. And not restoring jack shit. I wouldn't mind Windows Update so much if it could competently restart my applications and restore my Explorer windows, but the only thing it does every fucking time is make the taskbar icons disappear until I force-restart the Explorer process. Though I would still mind it a lot for the insanely slow and unhelpful update process at shutdown, every update requires half an hour of shutdown as the machine does who the fuck knows what with an unhelpful throbber telling you it's at 30% of some arbitrary process you've no idea about and which looks exactly as if the entire thing had crashed.
- parrellel 9y agoGod, it's even worse for academic / engineering use. Nothing is better than running a simulation for twenty hours and waking up to a nice blank desktop. /s
- CydeWeys 9y agoWow, yeah, that'd be a nightmare. I hadn't even considered that use case. I was just thinking of typical desktop use cases. In a similar vein, imagine that you're ill-advisedly using a Windows server to host your node for cryptocurrency mining, and then it restarts when you're not around. You could lose serious amounts of money from that.
- torrent-of-ions 9y agoWhy are you even using Windows for this?
- parrellel 9y agoA combination of IT policies and short sighted programmers.
- darrmit 9y agoThis is by far my biggest issue with MS updates. Every time I come in and my computer has rebooted itself I want to smash something.