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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This situation was the reason for me killing off my dual boot system and making it Linux only. I had kept Windows around for a few specific tools and games, but it was a roll of the dice if I could even use it when I needed because of the update situation.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have a seperate drive and I physically unplug my windows drive when I'm not using it. when I do, plunplug Linux then plug in windows, hate myself for a while, then revert back.

    I refuse to let microslop even see the Linux install since I know they are malicious criminal company and will tamper with shit just because.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    So many times my dual boot SSD has borked itself from malicious window updates killing off my Linux bootloader and attempting to make windows primary. Causes so much fstab and hassle to fix when Linux boots into crashed grub shell. Only for windows to BSOD and not boot anyway requiring reinstall of windows over and over again. Windows is truly hemorrhoids.

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