I'm so traumatised by windows updates fucking up my PCs for the past twenty years, that even when my Android phone says there's an update coming, I panic despite it never having been an issue
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I tried to install an update I've been putting off since 2023 on my android because I didn't have the storage, and immediately after trying my phone kept downloading random mobile games and Pinterest all by itself
I'm not even joking, it just forced me to download games
20 years ago it was "oh neat! I wonder what new toys we have!" or "Cool, they fixed this one thing, this is WAY better!", but at present day it's more "Oh NO, what did they ruin NOW?"
An update used to mean an upgrade. Instead Wordpad gets quietly torn off your machine to sell more Office subs
I've got my PC dual-booting Linux and Windows, and I've had Windows updates mess with the Linux installation, too, even though they're on separate hard drives
Going from windows update to Mac updates for the first time ever last year was crazy. Mac updates are fast, don't break anything, and leave you right where you left off.
Meanwhile every time my work laptop updates, something in 11 breaks and I have to spend 45 mins fixing it...
I switched in 2023 and have never looked back. My windows laptop at work drives me fucking bugsquat on a pretty well daily basis but at least I get none of that when I get home
Heh, thats been my experience too. 11 (and specifically the announcement of recall) was my breaking point. Been smooth sailing on my m4 macbook ever since. My favorite part is that after disabling apple intelligence, its _never_ bothered me to re-enable it. Unlike windows and copilot
Luckily I haven't had any issues with windows updates, though they often seem to want to update when it's late at night and I really need to get to sleep for an early morning. What's annoying is that the xbox app for gamepass often stops working if you don't have the latest update installed
Google bricked my Pixel with an update.. and then they didn't learn from their mistake and did it again (to others).
Even their own recovery tools didn't work and I had to wipe my files ;^;
Latest FW update for my Surface laptop (which isv automatically provisioned through Windows Update since it's Microsoft hardware) completely bricked the Thunderbolt connectivity to my monitor. I feel your pain.
Updating my Win11 pc, having it crash the next day like "yeah, that tracks"
I've done resets and backtracking to undo updates because some literally do nothing but break the computers
And, well, android updates on my end have
Wiped my home screen
Removed contacts
Disabled blue light filtering
It's like russian roulette for computers.
I had an update a few days back totally brick a piece of software that caused all kinds of weird fucky bugs on my PC.
Only after searching for an unresponsive program and un-installing it did it fix all of my issues.
The latest Samsung One UI 7.0 threw a few games back onto my phone that I KNOW I removed from the original day i bought the damn thing. But thankfully, you can just smack uninstall and they're gone. As you said, mobile carriers used to saddle you permanently with so much crap.
It might be different in the EU... I get 3 random apps added on every security update that requires a reboot.
But yeah, that's why I said it's more annoying than it is outright terrible... Although other things are impossible to get rid of while also being unnecessary, which is fucked.
Legit same. Seeing that FUCKING yellow thing near the shutdown fills me with instantaneous rage because I know as soon as I turn it off I need to turn it back on and check everything
I purposefully delay every update now as long as I can because there is usually always something wrong or broken. So I wait until THOSE fixes come out and hopefully do it all at once
I'm so glad when I left Apple back in the day I went with Linux on my serious business PC. I do have a few windows machines around but only for shit like hooked to TV to do streaming properly and games. Even games I can largely play on Linux now. And Linux let's me decide when and how to update.
I hope to please society to move away from Windows forever, I spent a lot of my life fixing bluescreens and the computer can't just out right tell me why or let me knows there's a problem, it just wants to crash and break everything.
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I'm not even joking, it just forced me to download games
An update used to mean an upgrade. Instead Wordpad gets quietly torn off your machine to sell more Office subs
Meanwhile every time my work laptop updates, something in 11 breaks and I have to spend 45 mins fixing it...
And it has been BLISS
I can just work on things and the operation system leaves me alone
Even their own recovery tools didn't work and I had to wipe my files ;^;
like in the past few months there has only been one update out of a bunch of them that doesn't trash older graphics cards
My phone is super hot just running Bsky rn 😬
Few mitigations i've used
First: Windows pro license gives you far more control over updates and features installed as well as when updates happen
Second: Turn off Microsoft driver updates
I've done resets and backtracking to undo updates because some literally do nothing but break the computers
And, well, android updates on my end have
Wiped my home screen
Removed contacts
Disabled blue light filtering
I had an update a few days back totally brick a piece of software that caused all kinds of weird fucky bugs on my PC.
Only after searching for an unresponsive program and un-installing it did it fix all of my issues.
though i hate downtime in general, lol
But that's more annoying that catastrophic.
Also they're slightly easier to get rid of.
Shit used to be so permanently crammed in there
But yeah, that's why I said it's more annoying than it is outright terrible... Although other things are impossible to get rid of while also being unnecessary, which is fucked.
I TOLD YOU *NOT* TO TRY IT.