I'm not trying to defend windows, it has a myriad of issues, but I've never understood the meme of it updating at inconvenient times. I run windows 11 pro, I set it to only update when i tell it to and it does... Like it's never been a problem, wasn't a problem in windows 10 or 7 pro either.

I don't get it, am i windows whisperer and not know it?

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

As a software developer, I still struggle with windows fuckery. I have to manage about a dozen machines, each of which has different tasks, and sometimes they decide to just up and reboot for the mandatory update. While I am out of state.

Uhg. I spent time yesterday writing a windows service to perpetually send a WoL magic packet to those computers just to avoid this situation again. They may never shut off again.

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean... There's videos of it suddenly doing an update in the middle of people's gaming/work sessions lol. I used to stream way back when windows updates were at their troll peak and had one kick off in the middle of a stream. It just happened randomly to some of us regardless of what was scheduled. I don't imagine it happened more than once for too many people. Generally speaking it's pretty good about sneaking updates in even though I detest how aggressive it is about them

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's always the centrally managed corporate Windows desktops. My workplace is better about this now, but previously they'd just push down updates and with some of them you'd have little other choice but to let it proceed no matter how inconvenient the timing.