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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source

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ht85 ◴[27 Mar 23 07:09 UTC] No.35323733[source]▶

Seeing this makes me really sad for the countless people who are forced to use Windows, most of them because they simply do not know better.

I have a Windows installation that I boot sometimes and pretty much every time I do something despicable happens, though I understand I am not the target audience.

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1. warner25 ◴[27 Mar 23 14:57 UTC] No.35327524[source]▶

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Yes, I keep an old laptop around with Windows 10, which sometimes goes months without powering on. When I do boot it again, it potentially takes hours of non-deterministically finding and downloading and installing updates over multiple reboots.

Compare to powering on a Linux machine and bringing it up-to-date in one shot with "sudo dnf upgrade."

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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news