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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:05AM (#33316116)
It's gotten a bit better, but I still remember booting up my machine (after not using it for a while), getting a "WOULD YOU LIKE TO UPDATE NOW OR IN 10 MINUTES?" dialog, and sure enough, after 10 minutes, the system force-rebooted, discarding any unsaved work (!), and spent the better part of the hour I had available to finally play a game on installing an update.

Might have been the same update that reset my privacy settings.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by marcosdumay on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:43AM (#33316507)
Well, "better" here means you get the chance to start the update by yourself withing a few days. No warning is displayed on those few days, and if you fail to update by yourself, the system still force-reboots and loses any unsaved work.

Also, my impression is that the updates have become much less reliable. So your computer may not be back at all. Or something you need never work anymore.

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