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Holy shit they remove Windows Update? That sounds like a great way to slide into madness as software breaks or malware rears its head

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Eh, honestly I usually have Windows Update disabled anyway because it causes much more headache than it is worth. Occasionally, once a year at most, I re-enable and update and it has about a 50/50 chance of not making me wish I'd just reinstalled instead.
- IntelMiner 5y ago
  That sounds decidedly self-inflicted. Windows 10 (minus its LTSC variants) are designed for a much quicker update cycle. "jumping" from versions literally a year apart sounds like a great way to break things
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
    From experience, updating constantly is a pretty great way to break things anyway. This way at least I am able to keep my system stable and working the way I want it to for longer, until I'm ready to deal with it potentially breaking.
  - rightbyte 5y ago
    It is usually better to chose when to risk breaking stuff then having some auto updater running.
    - babypuncher 5y ago
      Windows updates that actually break things are exceptionally rare these days, and rolling them back is usually pretty easy. All my Windows environments live on the slow ring and I've not once encountered a problem caused by a bad update. Conversely, I've had Manjaro updates break my GRUB config twice in the last year, which is a pretty daunting problem to fix for 99.9% of end users. I don't expect the small team at Manjaro to do a better job of this than a trillion dollar company, I just find the reputation WU has these days puzzling. Deferring updates for extended periods of time seems to consistently cause my users far more problems than it supposedly solves.
- babypuncher 5y ago
  I only ever have trouble with Windows Update on machines that go months or years without updates. The last two major feature updates installed in minutes like an every day bug fix or security patch.
exikyut 5y ago
Yeah that was kinda the part where I went "....ooookay I don't know how practical this is for me, but... uhh... bookmarks anyway"

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Eh, honestly I usually have Windows Update disabled anyway because it causes much more headache than it is worth. Occasionally, once a year at most, I re-enable and update and it has about a 50/50 chance of not making me wish I'd just reinstalled instead.

IntelMiner 5y ago
That sounds decidedly self-inflicted. Windows 10 (minus its LTSC variants) are designed for a much quicker update cycle. "jumping" from versions literally a year apart sounds like a great way to break things
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  From experience, updating constantly is a pretty great way to break things anyway. This way at least I am able to keep my system stable and working the way I want it to for longer, until I'm ready to deal with it potentially breaking.
- rightbyte 5y ago
  It is usually better to chose when to risk breaking stuff then having some auto updater running.
  - babypuncher 5y ago
    Windows updates that actually break things are exceptionally rare these days, and rolling them back is usually pretty easy. All my Windows environments live on the slow ring and I've not once encountered a problem caused by a bad update. Conversely, I've had Manjaro updates break my GRUB config twice in the last year, which is a pretty daunting problem to fix for 99.9% of end users. I don't expect the small team at Manjaro to do a better job of this than a trillion dollar company, I just find the reputation WU has these days puzzling. Deferring updates for extended periods of time seems to consistently cause my users far more problems than it supposedly solves.
babypuncher 5y ago
I only ever have trouble with Windows Update on machines that go months or years without updates. The last two major feature updates installed in minutes like an every day bug fix or security patch.

exikyut 5y ago

Yeah that was kinda the part where I went "....ooookay I don't know how practical this is for me, but... uhh... bookmarks anyway"