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Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by bitbuilder on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:17PM (#25437825)
I can't believe this is a thing. I recently switched back to Windows after deciding I wanted to play around with VR development (and honestly, get back into gaming) and was horrified to see a notice telling me my computer was going to reboot itself in one minute, with no way to abort.

I was right in the middle of something, and my first instinct was to Google how to stop the damn reboot. Of course, my computer was already rebooting by then.

I now know to turn on the setting to postpone updates for a month. But wow, I can't believe such unbelievably hostile UX is the out of the box experience.

(Also, side note, I'm pleasantly surprised at how robust and hassle free the Windows experience has otherwise become. I may even prefer this laptop to my MacBook, which I never thought I'd find myself thinking in a million years.)

Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by justinclift on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:42PM (#25438014)
Wait until you find out it's updating your motherboard BIOS/firmware (it tells you when it starts doing it!), and there's no way to stop it.

Not super great when the whole point of not upgrading to the latest BIOS was because it introduced a critical bug.

Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by lostmsu on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:53PM (#25438496)
This only happens on Microsoft hardware though (or it is not Windows doing the update).
Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by oses on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:04AM (#25442557)
UEFI updates can now be delivered by vendors thru Windows Update now : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...
Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by lostmsu on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:16PM (#25445166)
Good to know. But do any PC manufacturers do that in practice?
Re:4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur by justinclift on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:42AM (#25464246)
Not true. I only found out about this when my Acer laptop did it. :(