You can install Linux in 5
I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes
Submitted 9 hours ago by Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 58 minutes ago
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
And update while using it and restart at your own convenience.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 minutes ago
How shit is your computer if it won’t be done in 5 minutes?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Would you look at the time! Tux o’clock already!
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Yeah but Linux isn’t viable for me because [very obscure bug that was fixed in 2014]
negativenull@piefed.world 5 hours ago
i can backup my home computer, reinstall the entire OS, all apps, restore all the data, faster than a single Windows Update takes on my work machine
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 minutes ago
Didn’t he jump on the AI bandwagon?
Localhorst86@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Their computer is installing updates, sure they have a few minutes.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 hours ago
If I don’t find an anti-AI kernel fork I might be moving to NetBSD soon. That sucks, I hate moving to a new OS.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Linus has always prioritized results over ideological purity. Which is why Linux runs the world whereas BSD is still just a niche project.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Our Linus, who art from Finland, Hallowed be thy kernel.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 38 minutes ago
Good thing it does it when you aren’t active! Windows #1!
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This is why anything I need to do serious work on does not get Windows installed on it. Even OSX doesn’t pull this.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Simple rules of thumb:
Never use windows for presentations.
Never use powerpoint for presentations.
Never use your own profile for presentations
Always have a synced version to a URL that you can refer the audience to if the projector fails or doesnt like your computer.
Sergio@piefed.social 2 hours ago
A friend who did a lot of presentations said: always have backups for everything.
- spare laptop
- duplicates of all kinds of connectors & cables
- projector and external speakers (if all in-person audience)
- know of any other available rooms nearby
- copies of presentation on USB and online
- etc.
I went on a business trip with him once, and we all carried 2 bags each of equipment. Last I heard, he ended up working for a large entertainment company in LA.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 hours ago
Yeah, rule of thumb: you need your Windows PC to be available 100% at a close future point? update it now, reboot, and then disable networking if possible.
mynona@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Also pause updates, it doesn’t stop all updates but it does avoid most of the forced reboot Micro$lop dishes out for weeks at a time. Disabling networking is ideal, no doubt, including the telemetry spam.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I remember during the last big win11 update i defined active hours which was recommended by Microsoft to do so it only updates outside of work hours.
Only for it to get reset without notification so all workstations started updating in the middle of work when left idle
SlicedPotato@feddit.dk 3 hours ago
Linux.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
In 15 minutes? WOW!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You could probably boot a live USB and transfer your presentation to it in that time.
kurt_vonnegut2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
How is this only midly infuriating.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 hours ago
OP has embraced their inner calm
grue@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Stockholm syndrome.
doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
No, you don’t. Shhhh.
LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I use Linux, so I don’t have this problem 😎
one_old_coder@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I haven’t used Windows in years, but it’s kind of funny to remember because my Linux machines take at most 5 minutes to update (even with a hundred packages to update), and only require a restart if something important happens, and even in that case I can postpone the reboot.
Good luck anyway!
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
remember because my Linux machines take at most 5 minutes to update
I keep kicking myself because I’m using fedora Kinoite on my slowest machine. It’s going to get arch eventually, but for now it’s just annoying whenever I go to use it for a few minutes until it finishes the update.
klankin@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
Not even doing an A/B partition kexec update scheme with VM live migration for all critical services??
Oh wait I’m a stereotype
BillyClark@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Nowadays, a lot of Linux distributions like Ubuntu, for example, will do an update and then tell you that you should reboot, even if a reboot isn’t strictly necessary. You can still ignore and postpone, but I think most users will see this as very similar to Windows.
solxix@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Except for the fact that you can still use your computer while it’s updating. And it only takes one reboot (which takes the same amount of time as any other reboot) to apply the updates. And you have to actually tell your computer that you want to reboot. It’s really not like windows at all.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Windows machines frequently do updates without a reboot nowadays.
The problem is that when an update that requires an restart is pending, it changes the standard restart button into one that does an update and restart. You can often fall into muscle memory and accidentally trigger an update. When combined with the fact that you quite often get problems that go away with a reboot you can easily get yourself into OP’s position where they’re waiting for an update to finish at a really inconvenient time.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Always have a jump drive or some other backup of your presentation ready to drop on another computer. I have had this exact thing happen during an important presentation.
kepix@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
then why did you start the upgrade proccess?
dellish@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Windows often decides it wants to do it at boot; you have no choice. Of course Murphy’s Law states this will happen at the worst time possible.
TheSambassador@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Last night I specifically hit the “shut down” WITHOUT installing updates, and it just did it anyways. It does what it wants. This was W10 btw .
Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
We had a finance troll run into our IT department asking “how do I stop a service pack update!?” This was back in the XP days. She had a presentation in 15 minutes and had not turned the laptop on in over a year.
Our answer?
You don’t. You should have started preparing it yesterday.
She was PISSED! But her even more evil boss had ruined all her political capitol over all the other things she failed to prepare for.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This argument fails if you have a presentation on Patch Tuesday, or if the IT department forces critical updates at a certain day/time.
lagg_mine@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s mad how many times I’ve seen people fail their tests in uni because of windows updates
Viceversa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And how many?
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Mad.
lagg_mine@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
In rooms of 70 students, at least one would lose half their test time to an update. There were 8 of these sessions per day
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
IT guy here. When you finally can respond or join the meeting, make sure you cover yourself in feathers from a pillow and blame a duck gang for your misfortune.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 hours ago
Why not cover yourself with printed out Win11 logos and blame it on Windows Update?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Too late now but grab a live Linux USB, boot into it to access your presentation and run it on an emergency.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Or just use linux in the first place…
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because most eomployees get to choose their operating systems.
taiyang@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
When it happened to one of my students at least I was able to play it off and make fun of Windows instead of embarrassing them. But I also give full credit on presentations regardless of how bad they go.
That said, woe is you if it’s literally anything else, like a conference or a business meeting. Lol
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 hours ago
I know there are large organisations where the laptops are configured to also update their firmware when users are trying to get out the door at the end of the day and the outsourced ICT teams couldn’t care less.
Microsoft continues to be the best advocate for migrating to Linux.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If you’re forced to use Windows, you can minimise the amount of disruption from updates by remembering:
- they’re only released on Tuesdays, so you can make sure you get several days without interruption by installing them on Wednesdays
- there’s a pause updates for seven days button in Settings that you can use if there’s a Tuesday between now and when you’re going to definitely need the computer to be available
It’s much easier to plan around them when you know when they’re coming.
zoloftt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t know if OP says this anywhere, but if it’s a company laptop then MAYBE updates are whenever IT feels like it… And you cannot pause updates unless IT feels like offering that to you… AND only for particular updates…
I know you’re not trying to be mean IT but sometimes you hurt me
radix@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Managed corporate computers give IT departments control over when updates are released to users and installed. They’re usually later than the MS schedule to give more time for testing. Good departments will follow some sort of regular predictable schedule, but bad ones can just drop updates randomly.
meejle@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Windows 11 26H2 is actually a bit better with this anyway… it hangs on to updates that need reboots (instead of installing them straight away), so you only have to do an update-reboot once a month.
I think you can pause updates for longer as well. It might even be indefinitely but I’ve never bothered to look into it.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 9 hours ago
sidebro@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Nice.
innermachine@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Personally I disable auto updates and only update when I decide I want to, nothing worse than getting stradled with an update when u need quick access to ur computer!
SippyCup@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Windows views that as a suggestion, and frequently ignores it.
innermachine@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Interesting. Never had it ignoreded on my PC, my laptop, or my SO’s PC. The more time I spend in lemmy comment threads the more I think I ought to buy a lottery ticket due to the complete lack of issues I have on windows compared to apperantly everybody else…
zorro@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Debian did this to me recently. I was very upset…
Well except it was for my fantasy draft so the stakes were obviously much higher. /s
victorz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Debian forces you to update? 🤔
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
the default for some distributions these days is to apply updates on restarts (which produced win-like update progress screens) instead of ‘immediately’ (and leaving a kernel update hanging and waiting for one).
charmed_electron@programming.dev 7 hours ago
The way my org does it, I get a pop up saying my computer will be forcibly restarted when the countdown reaches zero. It’s typically an 8 hour timer. And the dialog can’t be minimized. If you move it, it moves back to the lower right every minute or so.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Buddy of mine lost $1500 in his own hockey pool because of this exact situation…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Windows isn’t ready for the desktop.