• naeap@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Not of you need to wait for ever for an update to finish during shutdown, when you just want to pack up your laptop and finally leave the work site - and afterwards it somehow needs the same time to boot up again, because it’s preparing out finishing something, without ever telling you, what the hell it’s actually doing all the time

      And usual reboot only takes like 20s, you’re right there, but not with a windows update blocking a normal shutdown or startup

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        2 days ago

        There is no situation where fucking about like they describe is the better option over rebooting

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          Well, depends on what you need to restart.

          If it’s just a service or two, then it’s pretty quick.

          Obviously you need to know, what you’re doing.
          And I think that’s pretty hard with windows, because it never tells you, what it’s actually doing during an update.

          With Linux it’s much more transparent and often the restart of a service is just part of my update routine.
          No need to close and save all my open stuff, and reboot. Just restart the few services that got an update and that’s pretty much it.

          So, really depends on the update, the transparency of it and also the personal insight/skill