I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • JoshCodes@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Best advice I ever got regarding Windows: delay updates for a few days. Sometimes Windows updates break the device, but if you’re part of the crowd that delays for a day or two, they might have fixed the issue by then.

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      1 year ago

      We don’t get a choice to do this on our laptops at work. We can delay them by at most 8 hours. Well last week we had a botched update that bricked the laptops of 3 people on my team of 11 people. So about a quarter of us couldn’t work for a week while IT scrambled to re-image laptops and restore from backups. Of course this is during our crunch because we are getting ready to launch a new software update on our product.

      Fun times.

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        1 year ago

        Your IT team can and should be delaying those updates via group policy at the domain level.