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> That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks. Not true. I only use windows for the occasional game that doesn't yet work well with wine/
by lawl 6y ago
> That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks.
Not true. I only use windows for the occasional game that doesn't yet work well with wine/proton. And every time I do boot it and start playing a game, it suddenly randomly reboots me.
No, I haven't ignored and dismissed updates for weeks. Indeed I haven't updated for weeks because I haven't booted it for weeks. But I haven't dismissed or ignored it.
And it's really annoying.
- cptskippy 6y agoI have a PC that I use almost exclusively for gaming that is booted at most once a week these days. I don't recall it ever spontaneously rebooting. The worst I have experienced is slow downs in game because it chose to update in the background.
- lawl 6y ago> that is booted at most once a week I suspect that's often enough to easily stay under that threshold. For me it's at most every 3ish months that i boot windows for one particular game that releases updates in 3 month cycles. Sometimes I skip one or two and then it's 6 or 9 month between boots. And everytime it just reboots me, no prompt, nothing, just in the middle of the game, good-bye.
- glandium 6y agoI have similar sporadic Windows use, but never random reboots. What I do get is updates happening at boot or at shutdown. The latter is okayish, but the former is annoying: you haven't used Windows for a while, and when you do need to use it, it takes forever to start up.