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[–] 109 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"We increase the disk/ram consumption, reinstalled edge for you (you can't scape) and added a few ads somewhere. Have fun!"

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Linux updates: here's the whole new desktop, GUI, appstore, start menu analog, and you can now summon a demon to do your bidding (no gui yet, you have to use the terminal until next update)

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Linux update: Changes little number in neofetch

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The new update was candy crush! You uninstalled it before, but we think you were mistaken.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    1 small security fix and 10 more spying software

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It just wanted to try to trick you into making edge your default browser and setting up a Microsoft account again

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There was actually a pretty big security problem in libwebp recently that likely led to some updates. Trust me, you'd want that patched.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    More surveillance and telemetry 😊

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Windows: Runs update 20+ minutes on shutdown and 20+ minutes on next startup, requiring multiple reboots: nothing has changed.

    Linux: Runs update for 5-10 minutes when you want it to update, changes basically the whole OS and adds a metric shit-ton of features and doesn't even care if you reboot or not.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Longest update for me was ~5 minutes in W10, mostly new definitions for the Defender and security patches. You can consult the property of the updates in the M$ page and also undo the last update, if you want. Memes of Windows are nice, but this one was valid 15 years ago, back then it was true that you could die in an update, but not now.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    On powerful PC's, yeah, my home PC is a rather powerful one and it would take me around a couple minutes to update.

    However, I remember two years ago having to use Windows 10 on a school PC (which was a crappy thinkpad) and it took around 1.5 hours to update after I did the mistake of arriving too early and deciding to update the laptop as "might as well, got nothing better to do", then not being able to do anything for 1 hour.

    Though admittedly, the laptop wasn't updated for a while (guessing around half a year?) so it probably was catching up to updates.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    My home PC updates like that, but our work PCs take forever, and Windows pushes an update almost every week. It can actually take over an hour to apply an update at times.

    I don't think anyone says it breaks things -- it's just glacially slow with no meaningful change. Sometimes, it changes for the worse, like the time I had to delete an unwanted desktop shortcut to Edge on every PC.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "performance and stability improvements" 🙄

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right click the update icon, select whatever option takesyou to the settings screen, on the right-hand side you'll find a link for changes in each update. It's not transparent, but it is available.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's also to a large degree security updates which are important as hell.

    Just look at apple to see what happens when security updates get neglected. Newest apple phone actually had a security exploit that allowed people to upload viruses to your device without you ever having to interact with the virus.

    Pegasus was the name of the virus

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The only thing that I can tell happens every update is that I have to tell my start bar, yet again, to show all program icons instead of hiding them. Individually. Oh, and Skype occasionally decides it's important at startup again.

    Almost forgot! My computer also randomly forgets how to sleep until updated.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The update isn't important. Being under the Totally Trustworthy™ umbrella of Microsoft is what's important. You don't need to see behind the curtain.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    New telemetry and advertising pop-ups.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It just reinstalled Edge, put a shortcut for it on your desktop and start menu, made it your default browser and migrated all your cookies and login info to Edge (for ad and tracking purposes) before uninstalling said browsers.

    No big deal, bro

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can read the patch notes if you want to see what's in the update just like linux.

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  • [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    More like "what broke?"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Can I interest you in Linux?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am already interested. My next laptop will b a Linux.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Are you aware that you can already dual-boot it? So you can install it parallel to your Windows install and use both

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    big Sept 26 Windows 11 update, does not have Taskbar never compress option. So sad, the only thing I want is still missing.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    The only reason I click on "what's new" is to get rid of the notification. There are exactly two programs where I care and I appreciate all the other programs shutting up.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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