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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by sisu2019 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:23PM (#19267490)
how about you do pending updates and set your work time? I think planning is still allowed for real work yes? This is why I don't believe that all these complaints come from super productive future steven spielberg level content producers because people like that wouldn't even need to think about planning around such an utter triviality.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by mrpigeonpants on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @07:12PM (#19268045)
What if I'm about to go to a concert, running late and I need to print tickets last minute, and suddenly windows needs to spend 30 minutes updating, without giving me a choice? The fact that you can't stop it in the moment is infuriating. Also, you can't expect the user to manually configure system updates.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by sisu2019 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:05AM (#19270050)
what if on your way to the concert your car breaks down because you kept putting of the required maintenance for months and months? This is exactly analog to your example. "Car users can't be expected to initiate an oil change at their convinience". Oh please.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by anoncake on Friday March 01, 2019 @03:06AM (#19278720)
That is not a good analogy. When a car breaks down, it cannot continue working. If Windows forces an upgrade, it could continue working, but refuses to.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by mrpigeonpants on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:54PM (#19273353)
My computer wouldn't break down without updates. I previously had windows 7 for years and never updated. And had consecutive months of uptime. You don't get it.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by muthdra on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:48PM (#19276991)
People like you are the reason we have to make system updates mandatory. Can you imagine if someone important kept an out-of-date primitive OS from updating for years? We have to be able to patch bugs in software whether you care about them or not. We are in climate change denial levels of discussion here.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by asdffdsa on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:36PM (#19267899)
quite tragic how the only thing holding back untold numbers of academy-award caliber filmmakers are configurable Windows updates
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