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

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 22:29:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 1/5/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
 

Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
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If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those
who installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows
updates slipstreamed into it.

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Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
into it."

 
How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for
applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?
 
 

Yes.

Obviously not.

But even in Linux, if you go around randomly deleting or installing
stuff, if you go outside the scope or bounds of the automated update
system, yon can break stuff.

But you can’t install packages that would conflict with ones already
present, unless you force things. Package managers are inherently
resistant to such screwups, by design.

sudo rm -Rf /

“Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”
“Don’t do that, then.”