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About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycl

by kd5bjo 6y ago

About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycle every time I attempted to use it. This resulted in an effective boot time of 15-30 minutes, which turned out to never be worth it. Why do these devices with almost no moving parts need weekly (or monthly) maintenance? We don’t accept that level of neediness from any other household tool.

shawnz 6y ago
For starters, that's a totally unrelated issue from what the other poster was talking about. That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. But consider that you don't use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day, and other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs.
- kd5bjo 6y ago
  > That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. No, it’s just a reflection that the pace of updates exceeded my pace of attempting to use Windows. These all applied successfully, and an immediate reboot was fine. > But consider that you don’t use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day I don’t use my household computer nearly that much, either. At a guess, it sees a comparable amount of use as my dishwasher which demands significantly less attention. (My office computer is a different story). > Other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs. Regardless of its design intent, my application needs aren’t rapidly changing: I use a computer for roughly the same things as I did 1 or 2 or 3 years ago. Why should I pay the time cost of upgrades to enable features I have no intention of using?
__MatrixMan__ 6y ago
It's because more people use chrome than use edge, which is clearly a broken situation. They're determined to fix it though, no matter how many updates it takes.

by kd5bjo 6y ago

shawnz 6y ago

For starters, that's a totally unrelated issue from what the other poster was talking about. That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. But consider that you don't use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day, and other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs.

kd5bjo 6y ago
> That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. No, it’s just a reflection that the pace of updates exceeded my pace of attempting to use Windows. These all applied successfully, and an immediate reboot was fine. > But consider that you don’t use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day I don’t use my household computer nearly that much, either. At a guess, it sees a comparable amount of use as my dishwasher which demands significantly less attention. (My office computer is a different story). > Other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs. Regardless of its design intent, my application needs aren’t rapidly changing: I use a computer for roughly the same things as I did 1 or 2 or 3 years ago. Why should I pay the time cost of upgrades to enable features I have no intention of using?

__MatrixMan__ 6y ago

It's because more people use chrome than use edge, which is clearly a broken situation. They're determined to fix it though, no matter how many updates it takes.