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Yesterday it worked / Today it is not working / Windows is like that

Reflecting an understanding of the state of computing usability last updated in the early 90s.

[ttctciyf]

> ‘I just installed KB4512941 and now Windows Search is broke and Cortana process in taskmanager takes 90% CPU,’ a Windows user wrote on Reddit.

> On Twitter, one gamer shared his pain after the update stopped his favourite game from working properly.

> ‘Very cool that Skyrim is broken,’ he wrote.

> ‘Yet another thing Windows updates has ruined for me. They’ve taken everything from me.’

- https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/09/microsoft-admits-windows-10-b...

(Or find your own counterexamples: https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+update+destroyed )

[Doxin]

Windows update is the #1 reason I even ever moved to linux in the first place.

- you can run updates whenever you like. no nag screens, no automatic reboots

- even when you do run updates you don't usually need to reboot and if you do need to reboot you can choose when to do so yourself.

- updates don't install ads or other unwanted crap

- (on debian at least) updates don't tend to break anything.

- no stalling boot

- no stalling shutdown -- I can't count the amount of times I've stayed up late because windows update was preventing shutdown.

- still automatic updates if you want with all of these advantages.

[jimnotgym]

Old news

[Doxin]

Yes. so? Just because you and I know that windows update is awful in comparison to package managers on linux doesn't mean everyone does.

[jimnotgym]

Of course you could have dozens of mac users working from home during the crisis, where a minor version VPN update requires an os upgrade but if you upgrade the os some other software won't work.

[caseymarquis]

Some Linux distros are like that too. The users are just better at figuring out why. (I recall updating Ubuntu breaking DNS and killing my internet, and tracking down the issue to needing a new symlink after a service was changed or something like that)

Edit: Helps when it's open source.

[ttctciyf]

Application b0rked; no we have no plans to fix: systemd installed.

[amiga-workbench]

I've lost count of how many Windows updates Microsoft have had to retract over the last few years.