image caption: A Microsoft Windows screen showing “Active Hours” with start time set to 12 AM and end time set to 12 AM and an error that says “Choose an end time that’s no more than 18 hours from the start time”.

    • katy ✨OPEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      my next laptop is going to be linux anyway :)

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Same goes for Linux and macOS, actually, but Linux will happily let you keep your machine vulnerable to getting hacked for months.

      Linux “reboots” every program and service it updates separately.
      So the only update that needs a reboot is one of the kernel, which doesn’t happen often.
      With Enterprise Linux, you can update the kernel without a reboot, too.

        • expr@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Obviously there’s a small handful of things that would require a reboot, but unlike Windows, the vast majority of programs in user space don’t require reboots on update.

          There’s also the fact that restarting Windows to update is a much slower and more disruptive experience than restarting Linux.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Linux will happily let you keep your machine vulnerable to getting hacked for months.

      Sad you included this misinformation in your otherwise good comment. Linux fundamentally works different and you can often update binaries as well as the kernel without rebooting.

      And even if you couldn’t, that’s 100% a user problem. Every distro I’ve ever seen makes it clear as day when you do need to restart, so this is 100% a user issue. But I guess people will also complain if their OS forces them to reboot (like this post), so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Replacing /usr/bin/firefox doesn’t fix anything if you don’t restart Firefox itself.

          On my box updating firefox and then restarting it won’t even launch the new version because NixOS knows I’m logged in and won’t just change things in my environment. But unless there’s a kernel update yes nixos rebuild switch followed by logging out and logging in is equivalent to rebooting as it will automatically shut down and restart all system services, I think even systemd itself. Modulo some wibbles around kernel modules but those fall under kernel updates in my book.

          Contrast Ubuntu, which really likes to prompt your for reboots. The difference between a distro primarily for desktop use and one that can also do desktop because also devops want a desktop. Hey I could spin up 1000 cloud instances of my desktop with a couple of keystrokes isn’t that impressively useless :)

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      With windows pro you can use Group Policy to disable them completely actually, though it’s obv not a good idea

      Open Group Policy Object Editor. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. Set Configure Automatic Updates to Disabled.

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      ROFL

      If Microsoft really cares for more users keeping their system updated they should fix their update process.

      While some updates require a reboot on other OSes for them to take effect they don’t require work during the reboot maximizing the downtime.

      Which is on top of the work done before rebooting, on the background, unprompted, destroying system performance.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Mine doesn’t reboot on it’s own and I don’t recall ever changing any settings to prevent it other than messing with the thing OP is talking about which wouldn’t let me turn it off. I get nag screens daily after a while but it never actually restarts. Maybe one of my applications prevents it or something.