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Windows 10 has a pretty awful update history. Among it's greatest hits, it has caused user data loss and rendered some PCs unbootable (including one of my lapto
by em500 6y ago
Windows 10 has a pretty awful update history. Among it's greatest hits, it has caused user data loss and rendered some PCs unbootable (including one of my laptops).
- boogies 6y agoIIRC MS has even had to block their own updates from their own Surface devices to prevent bricking. Contrast that GNU/Linux which a majority of desktop users probably run on hardware that wasn’t designed for it — I know I do because I’ve seen plenty of BSODs after updates which took orders of magnitude longer than installing GNU on the same hardware which ran the latter flawlessly.
- imtringued 6y agoNo, windows updates always had that reputation. Vista, 7, 10. All of them "bootlooped" i.e. an error occurs during update but windows does not delete the failed update from cache. Imagine being a 13 year old kid with a Vista laptop trying to install .NET Framework because he wanted to play Terraria but then his laptop becomes useless. Of course that is going to breed resentment and fueled my switch to Arch Linux. I managed to "unbrick" a Windows 10 system by disabling the windows update service and by deleting the cache folder. Windows updates are just universally bad.