Bill

Gotta say, #linux does NOT:

1) Reboot my machine in the middle of the night.
2) Wake me up with Good Morning, We Rebooted Your Machine Without Asking!
3) Try and sell me seven products AGAIN in order to use my machine, after I have declined several times in the past.
4) Make me grouchy to start my day. (Now, later in the day, sure.)

Oct 9, 2024 at 11:56amWeb
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 9, 2024
@Sempf I didn't mind the 'we rebooted your machine to install security updates' thing nearly as much as I minded the 'it will now take 45 minutes to actually install the update, which we didn't do in the 18 hours when you weren't sitting in front of this computer but are going to do now that you want to do work'. And quite how a software update can take 45 minutes on a 10-core Xeon with 128 GiB of RAM and the OS installed on SSD, I have no idea. I could do a clean install of any other OS in less time.
Show threadBillOct 9, 2024

@david_chisnall I remember those days but haven't seen that in a bit. Probably just my setup, but the issue similar is having to click through so many cleverly worded marketing questions blurry eyed on my first cup of coffee. Under Windows 11, it's pretty much done all its work by the time it is asking me those questions.

Windows 10, now, yeah. "Hi, we got an update last night! Is it OK if we download it and install it now?"

Show threadGavGOct 9, 2024
@Sempf having treated myself to kernel live patching now, I can't go back. If a machine asks me to reboot it to install an update I walk away. I'm no slave.
Show threadcarstenraddatzOct 9, 2024
@Sempf Fortunately, it also does not suggest products with awful names such as "$brandname 12.7 Advanced but Limited Premium Edition"
Show threadHandler SkylerOct 10, 2024
@Sempf 100% especially #4
Show threadAdam JohnOct 10, 2024
@Sempf 1-3 = 1000x this!
Show threadBillOct 10, 2024
@MrAdamJohn -0.002?