Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Wed, 1/1/2025 7:28 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2025-01-01 18:38, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:34:06 -0500, Joel wrote:
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Yeah, weird, huh?  It's like they can't make it right from the
beginning, they need people to put up with bugs to test it in the wild,
how is their internal testing so poor?  Being on the cutting edge with
M$ is just spinning one's wheels.  Linux is the refuge.

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I really hate defending Microsoft but when they do a release how are they
supposed to test every possible combination of hardware and software?

 
No, but they should give people the option to take a wait and see approach rather than force updates on everyone who didn't pay for a Pro license. Some people want every update the moment it's available; others like my wife want to watch the other computer crash and let the corporation fix the issue before she installs them.
 

Linux has gotten better but it was problematic on laptops and there were/
are lists of Linux friendly laptops. The Windows world assumes it's going
to work.
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Apple has a much easier task since they know exactly what the software is
going to run on.

 
I have yet to see an Apple update screw anything up but it is definitely easier for them since there aren't as many MacOS configurations to consider.
 

There is a button in Windows Update, to delay the installation of patches.

       "Pause Updates"   Pull-down menu == "Up to 5 weeks (35 days)"

This should be sufficient, you can resume updates when your desktop is
free and a block of time is available for the update to happen.

The purpose of this, is to control the "arbitrariness" of updating.
It does not stop updating altogether. People here have also achieved
that (no updates) by breaking stuff :-) The "Update Orchestrator"
exists, to try to keep updates flowing, by noticing damage to
the update system.

Windows used to have a control variable between 0..4, and one of the
values made it so updates only showed up if you clicked the button
to check for updates. That made the control of it, perfectly manual,
and if you wanted to stop updating for three years, you could. The
design intent of the current scheme, is to not do it like that,
and (long term average) always be receiving updates.

   Paul