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I haven't been using Windows for a while, but I think there's a way to disable via Group Policy or registry now?

by harrygeez 6y ago

jimbob45 6y ago
There is. Hard, but possible, just the way it should be.
- cartoonfoxes 6y ago
  Enterprise and Education only.
  - at_a_remove 6y ago
    I got Windows Long-Term Service Branch (LTSB, now LTSC for Long-Term Service Channel) for precisely this reason. After having an update happen at a bad time, one closing a file I hadn't yet saved, and another killing a process of computations I had been leaving to run overnight, I decided that I wanted to use my computer the way I saw fit, not the way someone else saw fit. If someone cannot wrap their head around the idea that I might leave a process running while I sleep, or that I might forget to save something in a program that doesn't have an autosave feature, well, they're not considering all of the use cases. For giggles, after LTSB I did "all the things" to get rid of forced updates on one particularly infrequently-used tablet and, as an experiment, left it unpatched for slightly over a year before seeing what would happen once I finally let it do its thing. For one, the updates took about three and a half hours, which I thought was interesting; just re-installing would likely be faster. More interesting, though, was that the world did not end because I had not patched this tablet. I get aiming at the eighty percent of your users who just would not think to update, but being that hostile to the other twenty percent who are aware of updates and still would like that control is annoying. It is sad to see that this kind of thinking has made its way to Linuxland, which I had imagined to be the last bastion of "we're doing this for your own good."
    - GekkePrutser 6y ago
      True, LTSB/C is really really nice. It doesn't come with any of the crap/bloatware that MS package in the normal editions either. It's just clean and does its job. I love it. It's just really hard to get officially for consumers. They should sell it to everyone that wants it. And yeah, Ubuntu Desktop is kinda the "Windows Home Edition" of Linux though. Something like Arch, Debian or Alpine won't do this to you.
Marsymars 6y ago
There always has been (though perhaps not for Windows Home Edition). My Windows systems have never, and still don't auto-update.

I haven't been using Windows for a while, but I think there's a way to disable via Group Policy or registry now?

jimbob45 6y ago

There is. Hard, but possible, just the way it should be.

cartoonfoxes 6y ago
Enterprise and Education only.
- at_a_remove 6y ago
  I got Windows Long-Term Service Branch (LTSB, now LTSC for Long-Term Service Channel) for precisely this reason. After having an update happen at a bad time, one closing a file I hadn't yet saved, and another killing a process of computations I had been leaving to run overnight, I decided that I wanted to use my computer the way I saw fit, not the way someone else saw fit. If someone cannot wrap their head around the idea that I might leave a process running while I sleep, or that I might forget to save something in a program that doesn't have an autosave feature, well, they're not considering all of the use cases. For giggles, after LTSB I did "all the things" to get rid of forced updates on one particularly infrequently-used tablet and, as an experiment, left it unpatched for slightly over a year before seeing what would happen once I finally let it do its thing. For one, the updates took about three and a half hours, which I thought was interesting; just re-installing would likely be faster. More interesting, though, was that the world did not end because I had not patched this tablet. I get aiming at the eighty percent of your users who just would not think to update, but being that hostile to the other twenty percent who are aware of updates and still would like that control is annoying. It is sad to see that this kind of thinking has made its way to Linuxland, which I had imagined to be the last bastion of "we're doing this for your own good."
  - GekkePrutser 6y ago
    True, LTSB/C is really really nice. It doesn't come with any of the crap/bloatware that MS package in the normal editions either. It's just clean and does its job. I love it. It's just really hard to get officially for consumers. They should sell it to everyone that wants it. And yeah, Ubuntu Desktop is kinda the "Windows Home Edition" of Linux though. Something like Arch, Debian or Alpine won't do this to you.

Marsymars 6y ago

There always has been (though perhaps not for Windows Home Edition). My Windows systems have never, and still don't auto-update.