And “Install updates and shut down” somehow involves restarting the computer three times, which is real fun when by default it boots Linux, so you have to babysit the installer just because Microsoft still haven’t figured out how to update their damn OS properly.
There has to be a better solution for that. I’m wondering if it’s worth switching the boot order in bios prior to updating but I guess you never really know how many times it’s going to restart either…
The worst part is on Linux efibootmgr can set the boot entry for next boot, like it’s already in the spec to say “boot windows for 1 boot then back to my default”
They just refuse to play nice with anything else.
I had Windows installed for nearly a year after swapping to Linux.
Until one day I needed more storage space and realized that I hadn’t booted into Windows in over 6 months so I shredded the drive, formatted it with ext4 and let Steam have it.
Damn my 70gigs on my SSD is left alone
That’s not so bad, I had a whole 2TB m.2 drive dedicated to Windows so the cost:benefit ratio was firmly on the side of yeeting Windows.
In my case it’s 512GB ssd from which i gave 70 gb for windows… Now that my home partition is almost full(6gb free), i am looking at you, winslop
(Btw windows alone takes around 60gigs iirc, so i already pushed it’s limit)
The worst way to use Windows is to boot it every once in awhile. It’s slow for awhile until all the updates are done installing and downloading. But then people shut it off right away, and next time they open it there’s more updates. When I was working at a PC repair shop, we’d get low end laptops that were running really slow. The solution was often to leave it on the bench for a day and let it work through updates.
The best way to use Windows, is of course installing Linux over it.
I haven’t felt that in years, especially with multicore+decent amounts of ram. Windows can update in the background and its not even noticeable anymore (IMO).
And that is what i hate the most. It wont even tell you its updating and in the end you see no shutdown button but only update and shutdown.
Oh have limited network speed or data? Dontcare+wontask+fuckyou
It is on low end hardware. My dual core thinkpad sits at 100% CPU utilization when it does windows updates. IMO this alone makes Windows unusable on that machine. Now it runs Debian flawlessly and I mostly just boot it up to print something on my old HP printer that’s been running on the same refilled cartridge for years now. I possess the only good HP printer left in the world I feel like.
Is your dual core still supported by windows? That must be ancient, in which case Linux would be your only option?
I haven’t booted windows in about 2 months and at this point I am too afraid to.
Last time I booted in to Win10 after 2-3 months my GPU driver just stopped working on Linux, which has never happened before, at least not like that.
Windows XP design was so good they went back to it for win7
I haven’t booted bare-metal Windows in years. Since then, I’ve only ever used it in a VM with no network connectivity, so no updates.
The only bare Win10 I got left has no auto network connection. It’s still surprises me that it doesn’t turn itself on in the middle of the night for updates so I see whatever I left running a month ago the last time it fell asleep. Yesterday I was trying to install device drivers on a Win11 vm and it rebooted mid install when I stopped looking for two minutes. Granted nothing broke but why do I get prompted about file explorer being opened for a user started reboot but an installer is considered killable? Such consistent design I can tell.
If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus’ WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It’s basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.
I have another way…
I have to use windows for work sometimes, so I got a copy from massgrave and created an xml ISO using this helpful page.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
Boom!
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I wanted to use the current Windows logo, but it’s so incredibly stupid, you wouldn’t even recognize it.
This is what happens when a $100 bn profit/year company is too cheap to hire artists:
TIL windows 1 logo was the best logo
There’s also this gem that was used infrequently around 3.0 era. I call it Windows Noir.
It does kinda look like a cafeteria tray, though.
Srsly wtf I saw that and immediately thought “Well that would be a great modern logo” its flat and sleek but still recognizable enough. Guess the marketing department didn’t want to admit “we got it right the first time”
Even seems to suggest use of a tiling window manager that MS still hasn’t properly implemented.
Yeah that logo is better than the modern logos by far
It’s just the blue screen of death now. Apt.
I think it’s a projection joke. Win12 isn’t even released yet.
12? Even 11 isn’t out yet. Or at least I haven’t heard.
You think they didn’t pay marketing consultants millions for that logo?
Window
s12
I have never dual booted successfully. I mean, I have set up dual boots. But I am fundamentally incapable of actually switching back and forth. I inevitably just pick one OS and only boot into that one.
I only have Windows for gaming, and even then only use it for old games, multiplayer, repacks, or any other types of games that don’t feel like working properly on Linux.
once a month
patch tuesday
chat, should I tell them?
Assuming no out of band patching.
Also the fact that this joke/meme only works now if you opt-in to the extended security updates (since that UI from panel 3 is from w10). So op wants the updates but then is like ‘oh no, updates’. Which one is it, op? Which one is it?
Hmmmm…
I always love spinning up the VM to run that one weird piece of software that we absolutely have to use and that only runs on windows, just to have to sit and look at the VM updating for an hour
I would’ve ripped out its virtual network card, if the application didn’t require network access 😩
LOL my VM with WIN 11 does that
Joke’s on you, Windows! I forgot my Windows password and haven’t booted into you for months.
Sent this to my friend who dual boots and their reply was “thats why you use a version thats out of support”. It always makes me laugh how much windows users hate security because of the way windows has pushed it on them.
Get rid of windows update by Ameliorating it!
There’s another way to get rid of Windows update.
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