My laptop wakes itself at midnight (somewhere around 12:30pm) and tries to install an update, but it fails every time and just hangs at the lock screen. Because the update is never properly installed, the device will boot up every night until I manually run "Update and restart". Ended up me killing windows update completely.

> Ended up me killing windows update completely.

I've tried to do this a number of times but no matter what I disable in the task scheduler it just ends up reenabled the next time I update the damn thing. Frustrating!

Sounds like an issue. Updates that need a reboot are like once a month. If you get that routinely something must be wrong.

once a month is often

How else would you apply major OS updates? Ubuntu also recommends you reboot after large manual updates.

Hey, how about next time I need important updates I will install them manually issuing a simple command like "apt update && apt upgrade" or "pacman -Suy", or whatever else is there? And on top of that reboot my home computer on my own schedule and when I have convenient time to do so. And even gasp not updating my OS with important security updates if I choose so! Bottom line, screw Windows with its updates. Why it is so if I own the hardware and turn it off and on whenever I want I can't do the same with my software?

Yes, I'm sure the average Joe will like that UX.

Ah, the average Joe that was doing approximately that about 10 years ago on Windows 7 via UI (which linux distros also provide) and wasn't really complaining about it in the process. What changed?

It's the same process now mate.