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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by cryptonector on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#23657686)
Agreed. Windows needs to have APIs, and apps that can save state must use them, to give apps a chance to save state. E.g., hibernate running VMs, finish syncing docs to drives, save simulation state (as in your case), etc.
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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by michaelmrose on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:11PM (#23658415)
Making every app that retains any state automatically save it sounds good but seems harder to implement than just don't reboot without asking.
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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by cryptonector on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:23PM (#23659280)
Many apps already have this. Your browser can restore windows and tabs on restart. Your $EDITORs save work in progress and let you restore on restart (well, VIM does). VMs can get paused and saved. These are by far the most important apps to have restored. Sure, I'd like my tmux instances and shells and stuff restored too, but I script all that setup anyways, so I'm good there. So, really, it's just a matter of integration.
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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by michaelmrose on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:06AM (#23659447)
This still compares unfavorably to suspend and hibernate and worrying about state once every several months.
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