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I've got to stop doing Windows Updates
by ronsor 9mo ago
I've got to stop doing Windows Updates
- blibble 9mo agojust delete the service entirely, same with defender it's great my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
- pilif 9mo agoYou should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem
- blibble 9mo agoit's running Microslop Windows, so it's born compromised it's an OS with constant built-in ads and spyware it would have been considered malware in the 2000s
- wileydragonfly 9mo ago[flagged]
- shawn_w 9mo agoI had a KMFMS shirt back in the 90's. Lost it in one move or another, alas.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoNot being an incompetent or inexperienced Windows user, I'm vanishingly unlikely to be infected by a bot network trojan... and if that does happen, rest assured, I'll notice it. Windows Update, on the other hand, is part of my threat model.
- brian-armstrong 9mo agoYou don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.
- blibble 9mo agoI have a 2nd nvme in that machine for bazzite not quite there for me yet I'm afraid!
- jayGlow 9mo agosometimes games just won't work on Linux, doom the dark ages refuses to work on Linux for me.
- fh973 9mo agoVR?
- girvo 9mo ago> unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat Sadly, I do :( Valorant is the main one that keeps my Windows partition around, for better or worse. Also sadly still there's some performance overhead for Linux gaming today, I hope that goes away in the future (for Intel/Nvidia cards especially)
- koakuma-chan 9mo agoYou can't do that. Eventually, something will stop working because it requires a certain Windows update.
- nehal3m 9mo agoThen reinstall with a later ISO and cripple it again. On the whole that's probably more reliable.
- PeterStuer 9mo agoIt is called Windows 10.
- imtringued 9mo agoBack when I used Windows, there were plenty of boot looping updates in Windows Vista, 7 and 10. You had three options. Either you disable Windows Updates, reinstall Windows or find a way to delete or prevent the specific patch that breaks your Windows installation. On Windows 10 I was forced to disable Windows Updates altogether, because the updates never finished even after running overnight. I have stopped using Windows since 2018.