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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: 10 Jun 2024 01:08:39 GMT
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> On 2024-06-08 8:56 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> On 6/7/2024 8:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 10:05:30 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to see if it becomes a pain in the ass.
>>>
>>> But you’re already inured, desensitized, numbed after years, decades
>>> of suff^H^H^H^Husing Windows. So how would you know when it becomes a
>>> pain in a normal person’s arse?
>> 
>> 
>> Since you don't run Windows you don't know how unobtrusive Windows
>> Updates actually are.
>> 
>> I don't recall ever once being interrupted by Windows telling me it has
>> to install an update right now (or giving a non-dismissable countdown
>> eg 30s to install an update and reboot).
>> 
>> That kind of interruption and reboot would be my pita test.
> 
> Admittedly, Windows has gotten pretty good with the updates to a point
> that it doesn't really bother you with new ones. If you're like my wife,
> you never do any and don't even realize that there are updates to be
> done. It will eventually force you, especially if there are 0-days being
> actively exploited, but it won't take up your work day or anything of
> the sort unless you're the type to restart every five minutes. Start the
> computer at 8am, shut it down at 5pm and it _might_ stay on to do an
> update.

Or you go to do a presentation, turn on your laptop, and it starts
finishing an update.

Windows.  What a country.

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