How can people put up with Windows update?

8 points by throwaway3b03 3 years ago | 3 comments
I had a bit of free time and i wanted to play a game that I was quite fond of a bit over a decade ago, aoe2. I never tried their new remastered edition, but since most players moved over i was planning on trying it out.

So i grabbed a slightly older laptop that i knew it had a Windows partition. On most of my machines i use Linux, and generally have no need for other OSes.

So what happens is that a notification keeps coming up asking me to "restart to finish installing an update". I ignored it a few times, but then I thought, heck, let's do it, can't be more then 5 minutes. Now, more than 2 hours later it's barely at 25% and the system is completely unusable for other tasks.

This seems to be a frequent occurrence. I don't understand how a product with such a user hostile behavior can still be on the market.

If i was at home, i would just reinstall a clean version. That is much faster.

  • phendrenad2 3 years ago
    I've had this happen to me too. Boot up an old Windows 7/8/10 machine, tun updates, it takes an unusually long amount of time. It seems like Microsoft does a bad job testing cumulative updates, and they hang or something. I have my main PC running all the time, so I get updates when they're released. This process seems to be much faster, the longest update I saw recently was about 10 minutes.
    • throwaway3b03 3 years ago
      I mean surely sometimes people have time-sensitive tasks to finish. And maybe they decide to let an update finish in a break. And they realize that it won't finish in time, so they do a hard reset. But then the rollback kicks in, which also takes an eternity.
      • Measter 3 years ago
        Here's my experience with Windows 10's updating: Every now and then, when I shut the PC down for the night, it updates itself first. Sometimes it finishes up on bootup, delaying startup by a minute or so.

        That's it.

        • AnnoyedComment 3 years ago