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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Putting aside that windows will simply forget updates when it decides to, users should not have to beg their own pc to not do something they didn’t choose to do.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You’re wrong twice in one sentence. Windows gives you lots of opportunities to deal with updating on your own schedule. Updates shouldn’t be optional, else we have huge botnets running around.

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- altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Windows takes ultimate authority on too many questions without asking or informing users about that. It is wrong by default and leads to a lot of predictable problems and UX drgradation. To the point Microsoft managed to make people be anxious about updates, wanting to stop them.
  
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  - Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The amount of people complaining about update scheduling is statistically insignificant in the real world. Lemmy and other tech communities are an echo chamber.
    
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    SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    It’s because this thread is filled with Linux bros. Windows scheduling updates at night and gives you weeks to prepare. It’s even funnier seeing people say osx doesn’t do this…it absolutely does. It will run an update if you wait to long and it takes just as long usually. Linux sure won’t do this, but the majority of people have no clue how to use Linux and it’s unfortunately not part of the corporate world in mass, and probably never will for workstations because of it’s steeper learning curve.
    
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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why do you hate property rights?
  
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- SlicedPotato@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I disagree. Updates SHOULD be optional, as long as you own your PC. Now, for a work PC, where your employer actually owns it, it’s them who decide what’s optional and what’s not. In that context, I think it’s every IT department’s responsibility to ensure security updates are pushed out and applied.
  
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  - Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe you don’t recall how bad botnets were before updates become harder to avoid.
    
    I’d support optional updates if network access is disabled, maybe by your ISP.
    
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