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It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time
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It really is a situation where you can't make everyone happy. If you don't force users to update eventually you get situations like WannaCry, where millions of PCs get hit by ransomware exploiting a vulnerability that was patched two months ago
Well, you could make a lot more people happy by making the update process less invasive.
It's particularly egregious that Windows not only needs to restart to apply updates (sometimes multiple times), but that these update restarts take much longer than normal restarts. Even if a Linux distro did force you to update, it still wouldn't be as problematic, because Linux can update in the background, without interrupting you -- and if it needs a restart in order to apply those updates, the restart doesn't take any longer than restarting the computer normally. You never come across the uniquely Windows issue of "I can't use my computer at all for the next 45 minutes because it's updating."
If the Windows update process wasn't so invasive and debilitating, people might not put it off so much. (Also, if people could trust that Windows updates would actually make their computer better, rather than worse... When you use forced updates to arbitrarily change user settings, to push spyware and bloatware, to shall we say strongly encourage the use of features that nobody asked for ... well, of course that makes people reluctant to update.)
This. I never got why ios or Ms can't take this route. It's insane to not just update the files on disk then reboot. I'd like to think there's a technical reason that couldn't do this but considering it's ms I'm not sure that's why.
Probably because of their fucking dinosaur of a filesystem. NTFS was created in fucking 1993. And 33 years later, it's still not only the default filesystem for Windows, but (barring certain very niche exceptions) it's still the most modern and most advanced filesystem Windows is capable of using!
How is a company with resources like Microsoft incapable of developing and introducing a new filesystem? Or, hell, there's nothing stopping them from just adopting and supporting one of the many better open-source filesystems out there.