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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year 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)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux update: Changes little number in neofetch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also breaks every possible driver

but hey, you can do them without a full restart most of the time :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

only when you update your kernel could that happen. But then you can always return to your old kernel.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can now summon a ~~demon~~ daemon to do your bidding

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But only if you fork it twice

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

1 small security fix and 10 more spying software

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only 10? They're being gentle this time.

What major feature is bring removed next update?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

More surveillance and telemetry 😊

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I forward our users to you when they want to work and need to wait 30-40 minutes before the stupid Windows update has completed?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Idk, it still takes Windows 10 much longer than I'd expect on my system. I wish it only took 5 minutes

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"performance and stability improvements" 🙄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the usual "we won't tell you".

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

pegasus didn't use just one exploit , it's a huge collection of zero-days

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly, that what businesses want because it checks off a box in their cyber insurance application. They don't care as long as their ass is covered.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

New telemetry and advertising pop-ups.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

That has literally never happened to me on Windows

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if course I'm over exaggerating, but Windows does love to reinstall Edge no matter how many times I remove it

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Patch notes: Bug fixes and stability improvements

Patch size: 17.3 GB

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

More like "what broke?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Optimizations? Fix known issues?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

new obscure BSOD for the most lucky fellas

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Can I interest you in Linux?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In completely puzzled, why would they not have that feature? Also why is everything centered in the middle of the task bar now by default? Microsoft sure makes weird UI decisions.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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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