Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update

Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by madiathomas on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:11AM (#14340683)

In my case, it is simply too expensive to download updates. I live in a country which is notorious for expensive data prices. I don't mind interruptions. That's a good problem to have. The choice for me is between spending a week's worth of groceries to download updates periodically or spending that money to buy food and risk getting my PC infected.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by setq on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:15AM (#14340698)

This is an interesting and genuine case where I can see that it doesn't make sense.

In your case it should be possible to have a windows "branch" with just critical vulnerabilities patched with binary diffs or something rather than 680-odd Mb patch sets.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by Qwertious on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:07AM (#14348314)

That's the obvious general solution for everyone - having critical security vulnerabilities on their own channel, without being required to take the features/antifeatures too.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by bigbugbag on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:01AM (#14341194)

You have a few possible alternative: switch to a different kind of OS, use sneakernet to share updates with people around you. etc

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by setq on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:07AM (#14341229)

Talking of which: http://download.wsusoffline.net/

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by madiathomas on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:14AM (#14341268)

Majority of software I use only available on Windows. Visual Studio, MS SQL Server and Microsoft Office. I tried switching to Fedora.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by bigbugbag on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:57AM (#14341582)

I'm not sure about Visual Studio but there are alternative to MS SQL Server and Microsoft office. If you're stuck with windows, then you should consider sharing resources with other people in a similar situation.

Download the updates manually and share them via USB storage with other peoples, assuming you have other people in similar situation around you and they are willing to do the same.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by madiathomas on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:20AM (#14348342)

I tried using OpenOffice. I didn't like it. I tried to force myself to like it. I failed.

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