[denton-scratch]

> Spontanous reboots for patching

My laptop runs Windows 10 (all my other machines are Debian or Devuan). I have searched, but failed to find any way of preventing this damned OS from downloading and installing updates without asking me. I often get up in the morning to find that all my open windows have been force-closed, because the machine rebooted after an update.

I have no idea what the updates contain; by the time I know about it, it's already installed and running. I don't see much point in reading the release-notes (if I can find them), because they are invariably opaque and full of obfuscation.

And anyway, the updates are unitary; I can't cherry-pick packages or bug-fixes. Win10 is either up-to-date or vulnerable. And "updates" often include new features that I don't want.

I don't know why Windows the OS is so user-unfriendly; possibly because the devs are exclusively focused on enterprise features. I've been using Windows since Win3, but I nowadays find it nigh-impossible to administer my own machine.

I've been thinking of replacing Windows with Devuan on this one hold-out machine for months.

[nijave]

It's user friendly for people that don't know what patches are or why software needs updated. It's frustrating for the people that do and would like control

I remember the Windows XP days where you'd regularly find computers that hadn't successfully updated in months or years and it was a whole day effort to get them patched

Windows 10 Reboot Blocker works ok. It runs as a service and keeps readjusting active hours to prevent reboots