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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Keeping a Pro or a Home install up to date is not always a good thing. From a security standpoint, yes, I do agree, but when half your personal files go missing after an update... you kinda start wondering why you let this thing update automatically in the first place.

    LTSC editions though, yes. I leave them to autoupdate. They do it like once a month anyway, so it's not that big of a deal anyway, it's not really such a big problem. And the updates don't take that long, no new features are added, just security updates and that's it.

    So, if you're worried about security and being up to date, I'd recommend the Windows LTSC editions. That is the only thing I ever install if I have to install Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I haven't experienced the missing files issue on any of the machines I use, nor have the people I know. I guess the missing files thing is when some people set up their directories in a specific unusual way.

    On a couple of machines my personal directories are in the default locations and on one machine there on a separate drive.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Home should never EVER be touched, period.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    Apparently the files were never deleted. The issue was something failed with a temp profile during the update process for some users. I don't care enough to read on it further. That's good enough in my opinion and not a reason to avoid Windows.