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  • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have never had problems with windows updates nor has it never rebooted on me. Dunno what the hate is for, at least windows works without knowing 79 different programming languages and having to scour through git repos from 2002 for drivers just to get a driver compiled for your headset (it wont compile because it requires a bingbong-SDK mainted by a guy from turkey who refuses to update it from 1.95v2 to more recent 1.99-6 which is incompatible with your dial-up modem)

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never had windows force a reboot and I don’t even turn my PC off at night like the other guy does

        I just tell it to schedule a time for the middle of the night and go from there

        I think maybe back in the xp/vista days that happened once or twice, but not in well over a decade now

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          1 year ago

          At least that works for you. I’ve never been able to get windows to respect my “active hours.” Especially on my work laptop - I work overnight, and frequently have to open up a command prompt to override the forced scheduled restart. Even though the active hours thing allows you to put in a day that starts at PM and ends at AM, something about my work day crossing over midnight apparently just makes windows shit its diaper.

          Edit: Dang, fuck me for just relaying my experience. Didn’t realize we weren’t allowed to criticize the godOS.

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      1 year ago

      From command line it’s “sudo dnf update” for example and if you use flatpak, “flatpak update”, updates everything. Or just click update in software manager.

      There are programs that are not compiled/packaged by their developers and you have to do it yourself, but so are on Windows. But for OS from Microsoft noone would mention such program, because compiling on Windows is nightmare in comparason. C for example was designed for Unix-like systems. More high-level languages have less dependency installing, but still.

      Nowadays people run WSL to compile programs for Windows and that says something…

      EDIT: To people in responses below, don’t get too engaged to something that can be trolling.