[Thimothy]

I never got them. The last update in my windows is from Dec 2017. My antivirus is compliant, the registry key correctly set up and yet it refuses to update.

I still haven't had the time to debug it, but I wonder how many people are out there with their OS silently refusing to update.

[epistasis]

I had huge problems with Win 10. Updates wold fail and install again and again without actually getting installed. Sometimes I would get an opaque error number but web searches revealed nothing for that number, and it was rare that I would be able to find even an error number. I don't do Windows, and just installed it for VR, and didn't spend that much time in Windows, so I would spend 15-30 minutes looking a month, before realizing I had spent more debugging time than VR time that week.

After probably 9 months of this, and with Windows doing ever more intrusive pop overs whenever I launched it for updates that don't take, I wiped all boot sectors everywhere and installed from scratch. That seemed to work, but it was incredibly frustrating that the boot process was so buggy as was error reporting. I've never encountered a situation like it in the past 15 years of heavy Linux use. Problems there are usually solvable with a couple web searches, even for extremely obscure kernel bugs with obscure packages. Windows refused to tell me anything as did the web.

[whywhywhywhy]

I built a Windows machine for 3D work and VR just over a year ago, after being a Mac only user for 15+ years. Honestly my Win 10 experience has been the total opposite, it's been stable, fast, minimum update nagging. Overall I've actually been shocked how stable and hassle free the experience has been.

Maybe I just got lucky with the right combination of hardware.