With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by Osiris on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:55PM (#12308395)

I was running Ubuntu 14.04 on a small PC with XBMC and proprietary Nvidia drivers. The standard `apt-get update` would never rebuild the nvidia drivers so inevitably on reboot, X couldn't start and I had to figure out why, then rebuild the nvidia drivers manually, and try again.

I'm much more scared of Ubuntu aptitude updates than I am of Microsoft updates.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by nitrogen on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:16PM (#12308544)

Fixing a broken apt update is easier than fixing a broken Windows update, though.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by tracker1 on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:35AM (#12318689)

Win10 broke safe mode, it can be re-enabled, but still... Reboot into safe more, or via recovery disk... restore the to restore point set before updates, reboot.

Most updates in Ubuntu can be recovered from. That doesn't make it better/easier than recovery in Windows... as it depends on what got updated, how it got updated, and what all came with it.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by brokenmachine on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:59PM (#12310357)

I've had the exact same problem every time with Nvidia drivers when updating ubuntu.

Despite this, it's not too hard to fix, and I'm much more scared of forced Microsoft OS updates though.

Win7 will be my last Microsoft OS. The way they've been trying to trick people into updating is disgusting.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by pritambaral on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:50AM (#12350638)

Even Win7 has gotten a lot of privacy killing updates silently.

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