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In my case, it is simply too expensive to download updates. I live in a country which is notorious for expensive data prices. I don't mind interruptions. That's
by madiathomas 9y ago
In my case, it is simply too expensive to download updates. I live in a country which is notorious for expensive data prices. I don't mind interruptions. That's a good problem to have. The choice for me is between spending a week's worth of groceries to download updates periodically or spending that money to buy food and risk getting my PC infected.
- setq 9y agoThis is an interesting and genuine case where I can see that it doesn't make sense. In your case it should be possible to have a windows "branch" with just critical vulnerabilities patched with binary diffs or something rather than 680-odd Mb patch sets.
- Qwertious 9y agoThat's the obvious general solution for everyone - having critical security vulnerabilities on their own channel, without being required to take the features/antifeatures too.
- bigbugbag 9y agoYou have a few possible alternative: switch to a different kind of OS, use sneakernet to share updates with people around you. etc
- setq 9y agoTalking of which: http://download.wsusoffline.net/ http://download.wsusoffline.net/
- madiathomas 9y agoMajority of software I use only available on Windows. Visual Studio, MS SQL Server and Microsoft Office. I tried switching to Fedora.
- bigbugbag 9y agoI'm not sure about Visual Studio but there are alternative to MS SQL Server and Microsoft office. If you're stuck with windows, then you should consider sharing resources with other people in a similar situation. Download the updates manually and share them via USB storage with other peoples, assuming you have other people in similar situation around you and they are willing to do the same.
- madiathomas 9y agoI tried using OpenOffice. I didn't like it. I tried to force myself to like it. I failed.