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People until WinXP: Windows is constantly vulnerable, M$ should do something! MS: invents Windows Update People: disables Windows Update People: My Windo

People until WinXP: Windows is constantly vulnerable, M$ should do something! MS: *invents Windows Update* People: *disables Windows Update* People: My Windows has died for another MS Blaster variant! M$ should do something! MS after Win8: *makes intrusive, hard to disable, forceful Windows Update which... forces the Windows to be updated, duh* People: My Windows is unusable! M$ should do something! ... Sure, quality of the how the process was implemented desires better (I'm too in the victim list of the forced reboot after update), but, BUT! the overall quality gone better. With Win10 not from a fresh install it's just a couple of monthly updates from the last month (Quality and Security Update rollups?), not all updates for the last N months you didn't booted it up. > Linux is my daily driver, but I have Windows on a separate hard drive in my machine. And if that Windows is really on a hard drive... For all "BUT MUH LINUX!1111" people out there - try to use a recent Ubuntu/RHEL with a desktop environment on the hard drive. Chances you forgot how slow HDDs are.

anthk 4y ago
OpenBSD user here, with an HDD under an Atom netbook, 1GB of RAM. CWM+Links/lynx, Luakit otherwise. Windows 10 would crawl here.
orwin 4y ago
Well, uh, quite fast? The last Lubuntu boot faster than my windows, while on an HDD partition, and the windows is installed on the SSD partition. I think that my linux mint was on an HDD too, and while not the "latest" ubuntu, booted faster than my windows too, on a worse computer. I don't really care about that tbh, its booting fast enough. The only thing that bother me on windows is the telemetry eating my internet when i'm in a train (fuck microsoft, i'm earning a lot so i can afford unlimited data, but when i was an intern i couldn't have afforded this). And on my work laptop, the company security bloatware (Symantec endpoint protection anyone?). Also HyperV. I don't understand why the company forbid WSL and then ask us to run container on our workstation, HyperV is probably the worst virtualizer. I think that's it.
- CoolCold 4y ago
  Mine pretty much respect Metered Connection settings and even OneDrive disables sync automatically. Not tried to trace telemetry though.
rascul 4y ago
I have a couple openSUSE/KDE installs on spinners. They're quite fine. Slightly longer to load up and after that it's mostly not noticeable depending on what I'm doing.
justsomehnguy 4y ago
6 hours later: It's quite telling what instead of Ubuntu/RHEL we got Lubuntu, openSUSE on KDE (from which year?) and OpenBSD. Guys, no. Ubuntu/RHEL, not your favourite lightweight distro.

People until WinXP: Windows is constantly vulnerable, M$ should do something! MS: *invents Windows Update* People: *disables Windows Update* People: My Windo

anthk 4y ago

OpenBSD user here, with an HDD under an Atom netbook, 1GB of RAM. CWM+Links/lynx, Luakit otherwise. Windows 10 would crawl here.

orwin 4y ago

Well, uh, quite fast? The last Lubuntu boot faster than my windows, while on an HDD partition, and the windows is installed on the SSD partition. I think that my linux mint was on an HDD too, and while not the "latest" ubuntu, booted faster than my windows too, on a worse computer. I don't really care about that tbh, its booting fast enough. The only thing that bother me on windows is the telemetry eating my internet when i'm in a train (fuck microsoft, i'm earning a lot so i can afford unlimited data, but when i was an intern i couldn't have afforded this). And on my work laptop, the company security bloatware (Symantec endpoint protection anyone?). Also HyperV. I don't understand why the company forbid WSL and then ask us to run container on our workstation, HyperV is probably the worst virtualizer. I think that's it.

CoolCold 4y ago
Mine pretty much respect Metered Connection settings and even OneDrive disables sync automatically. Not tried to trace telemetry though.

rascul 4y ago

I have a couple openSUSE/KDE installs on spinners. They're quite fine. Slightly longer to load up and after that it's mostly not noticeable depending on what I'm doing.

justsomehnguy 4y ago

6 hours later: It's quite telling what instead of Ubuntu/RHEL we got Lubuntu, openSUSE on KDE (from which year?) and OpenBSD. Guys, no. Ubuntu/RHEL, not your favourite lightweight distro.