Mildly Infuriating

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

Windows isn't ready for daily driving imo, it's risky to use such an unstable OS for high importance tasks.

It's fine if you want to tinker and experiment with a different OS, but for day to day usage I think you should really be using something more stable.

I remember during the last big win11 update i defined active hours which was recommended by Microsoft to do so it only updates outside of work hours.

Only for it to get reset without notification so all workstations started updating in the middle of work when left idle

Windows isn't ready for the desktop.

No, you don't. Shhhh.

Simple rules of thumb:

Never use windows for presentations.

Never use powerpoint for presentations.

Never use your own profile for presentations.

Always have a synced version to a URL that you can refer the audience to if the projector fails or doesnt like your computer.

But yeah, that sucks.

I haven't used Windows in years, but it's kind of funny to remember because my Linux machines take at most 5 minutes to update (even with a hundred packages to update), and only require a restart if something important happens, and even in that case I can postpone the reboot.

Good luck anyway!

How is this only midly infuriating.

Seriously, this right here is why I stopped using windows for work and switched to linux for professional reasons. Windows is not serious business software because of shit like this.

IT guy here. When you finally can respond or join the meeting, make sure you cover yourself in feathers from a pillow and blame a duck gang for your misfortune.

Linux.

Or literally any other OS than Windoze.

You can install Linux in 5

Nice.

I know there are large organisations where the laptops are configured to also update their firmware when users are trying to get out the door at the end of the day and the outsourced ICT teams couldn't care less.

Microsoft continues to be the best advocate for migrating to Linux.

When it happened to one of my students at least I was able to play it off and make fun of Windows instead of embarrassing them. But I also give full credit on presentations regardless of how bad they go.

That said, woe is you if it's literally anything else, like a conference or a business meeting. Lol

It's mad how many times I've seen people fail their tests in uni because of windows updates

Yeah, rule of thumb: you need your Windows PC to be available 100% at a close future point? update it now, reboot, and then disable networking if possible.

If you're forced to use Windows, you can minimise the amount of disruption from updates by remembering:

• they're only released on Tuesdays, so you can make sure you get several days without interruption by installing them on Wednesdays
• there's a pause updates for seven days button in Settings that you can use if there's a Tuesday between now and when you're going to definitely need the computer to be available

It's much easier to plan around them when you know when they're coming.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that"

This is why anything I need to do serious work on does not get Windows installed on it. Even OSX doesn’t pull this.

It's your mistake, never schedule a presentation after a patch Tuesday

(I'm joking, fuck this shit, Wednesday I had to fight all the computers "OMG a new update it's out, can I reboot now????")

Nice.

Buddy of mine lost $1500 in his own hockey pool because of this exact situation....