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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by tracker1 on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:27PM (#11988766)
IIRC, you can specify a time of day to update, and mostly, you get an option to retry in 4 hours (or tomorrow, etc)... most corporate environments are using services to defer updates to scheduled times.. and at home, I just leave it on/auto. My understanding it's only after a few days of nagging that you can't defer the updates anymore.

If you can't reboot your computer for over two days, you may want to rethink your workflow... I tend to completely shutdown/restart at least every night/morning, and if I had critical pending updates, would probably let them run at lunch, just closing everything before that. This happens maybe once a month, and is just the cost of having a computer...

"Oh man, I have to stop my car and turn it off to get gas once a week. Or when I get my oil changed every few months..."

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by WalterBright on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:28PM (#11989215)
Ubuntu does it right. It only nags me when I log in, and I can dismiss it with a click, and I don't get nagged again until I log in again.

Edit: On Windows I often run jobs overnight that take 6-7 hours to complete. It's annoying to discover in the morning that Windows aborted my job to install some update, and I have to restart the thing for the next night. This never happens on Ubuntu.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by tracker1 on Friday July 01, 2016 @05:57PM (#12019990)
Note, if you aren't on an LTS release, don't wait too long... my grandmother is on 14.10, and can no longer run updates (servers appear to be gone) and no clean upgrade path to 16.04, so I'll be copying her profile directory, and setting up the latest version... fortunately, she only uses the browser and a couple of old games installed via wine.
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