[causi]

You don't use Windows Update Manager or timed firewall rules to make sure Update doesn't ever interfere with your work?

[jakogut]

If your OS defaults to interrupting your work with its update policies, it's doing it wrong. Just because you can delay it doesn't make it acceptable.

[mszcz]

Agreed. The fuck-your-work-restart behavior is infuriating.

[jakogut]

This is one of the biggest reasons I no longer boot Windows at all, combined with the rather good support for gaming on Linux nowadays.

When I boot up my Windows install for the first time in months and it wants to waste ten, twenty minutes of my time installing updates and not letting me use my computer, I just don't bother next time. When I play a game, and Windows wants to pester me in the background to reboot for updates, it makes me wish I hadn't bothered. If a game or application doesn't work on Linux, I just don't use it. It's not worth the time.

[mszcz]

No I don't. The restarts are fucking infuriating but, at least in my case, they've never been catastrophic. My computer is usually running all the time but when I finish working on some thing I always ^S everything and usually `git push --all; git push --tags`.