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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You can delay Windows updates up to 30 days at a time, and do that indefinitely. Or just black hole the update server in your hosts file to disable updates entirely.

There are also ways to not download updates until a certain amount of time after their release, and then to give yourself something like two weeks before it auto installs during a period when the computer is not in active use.

I haven't had an update happen unexpectedly since Vista.

And lets be real, do we really want to just let the average chucklefuck run around with insecure shit? There's an element of protecting people from themselves going on here as well.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The point is there shouldn't have to be a work around, reg hack or host file modification. I should be allowed to do with my computer what I want. I agree it should be on by default, but, there should be an easy no/off switch.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I think they should not push updates that constantly break shit and introduce AI into everything, maybe then people would not mind the windows updates.
    But where's the fun in that, right? Gotta get people to switch to Linux somehow and I appreciate their effort.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Almost all of the settings are a simple on off switch. Group policy and the settings menu. Both are easily navigatible GUIs with clear descriptions of what the switches do. You only have to go the hosts file route if you want the extreme of completely disabling updates.

    I work in sysadmin in a Windows environment. I haven't had to touch the registry (for Windows configuration, we won't talk about dumbass software devs) in over four years, and it was only because I didn't check group policy first.

    Please, for the love of all that is worthwhile in this world, don't lecture others on the ease or difficulty of configuring systems if you aren't actually familiar with how to configure those systems.

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