When pressing the power button makes you powerless

Confirmed Windows user, lol

I’m a Mac user and let me tell you, it could easily be an osx device. Those friggin updates take forever, and can be forced on you with no warning.
- Mac updates are weirdly slow.
- I think you've got a setting wrong. I've got mine set to download only. So it just downloads the update in the background and notifies me. I have even left that notification sitting there for months before without it forcing or nagging me.
- You can turn off automatic updates, but it will still give you a notification when there is one so you can make it update at night.
  
  Also, OS X? Is the OS 10.X or you're just referring to it as OS X. Because in newer macOS versions, I can confirm the automatic updates do it at night when you're not using the computer.
That ignore system messages. This post will be anecdotal, but I can't ever get my systems to suddenly restart or reinstall the bloatware apps like some people claim theirs do. It honestly seems like it's "power users" fucking with things that they don't actually understand, and then complaining that things aren't working the way they expect.

We have 5 Windows 11 systems in our household, and 2 family members that are terrible with computers. None of them act the way some randoms on the Internet claim Windows 11 does with updates all the time. And everyone I personally know doesn't seem to have these issues either. But we're also not installing random patches or messing with settings that don't have a natural and intentional UI element.

All of our systems I help with for family and friends update on their own, and prompt when a restart is needed, including a button to delay the restart. If ignored, it prompts after a day or so again and only if ignored or delayed for an extended period will eventually give a countdown to a forced restart. I only noticed the countdown because I was explicitly trying to reproduce what people online claim about it suddenly restarting while using it. And at that point it WILL restart even in use, but that's after an extended period, multiple days, of ignoring notifications about it.

I also don't have issues on my systems with those annoying bloatware app links (like Candy Crush) reinstalling, etc. on their own. I turned off the various advertising settings in the settings menus and uninstalled the app links like normal. They've never returned.

Since I've been completely unable to reproduce these relatively common complaints on multiple systems myself, I can only assume people are adjusting settings or installing various patches from the Internet that mess with things that aren't intended to be user-facing and that ends up causing issues. Like the infinite number of patches to remove telemetry, etc. that people don't know what's actually being changed by it, but install for privacy.
- Agreed.
  I'm a professional IT tech and see a lot of desktops during the week including my own.
  We have some Windows PCs that still had 1809 installed because Windows does not manage to update itself without being forced to search.
- I mostly agree with you. But something like 3 years ago, I remember letting my PC run while I was gathering seats over night. There was no previous "restart now" or even "update now". However, in the morning, I found the PC had restarted too install an update. And that was the standard setting back then. I changed it to only prompt that there are updates since, and AFAIR that setting was "reset" 1 or 2 times ever since in an update.
  
  But seeing how absurdly niche what I do is, I doubt that random users will care. And sadly they need to be forced to update for the sake of all of us.

As a Linux user, I cannot relate

As a Windows 10 user who only enabled security updates neither can I.
- As an Amish person where am I and how did I get here.
- As a Windows user who manually updates weekly and reads changelogs for what actually changes, neither do I.
  
  But then again I don't leave 400,000 items open on my desktop for no reason whatsoever and get mad when I have to close them.

I’m here to make sure most comments here have the word “Linux” in it.

After switching to Linux a month ago, I can finally participate in the circle jerking:

Forced updates? Haha lol. That's such a Windows user thing to say.

> chad GNU/Linux respecting my preferences.
> only updates when I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.
> finishes updating kernel and 150 packages in less than 5 minutes whilst I'm merging a pr.
> I close computer when I'm done, unaware of updates.
> open it up next day and it starts like nothing happened.
> mfw I read this post
- My update failed for some unforeseen bug in the software
  
  nixos-rebuild switch --rollback
  
  Back in business as if nothing happened

Maybe it's because I use Linux but I can't relate (anymore). So glad I'll never have to sit through another forced windows update 😌

Confused in linux?

linux user be like: loser

I might be a Linux user but Nvidia makes sure it takes forever to boot when there's a new update. Fuck you Nvidia

I use linux, but can somewhat relate because i have a weird AM5 motherboard that shows 0-4 minutes of "DRAM ERROR" before posting

I'm pretty sure that's a bios option. Your ram is retraining for maximum overclock. Turn it off. Live with the 1% slower performance.
- Hate to break it to you, but no. I turned every option regarding cpu or ram overclocking off and it still won't post stable. Doesn't matter, i am a cs phd, so i pretty much start the system in the morning and shut it down before i go to bed, this way i just have to start it before getting coffee :)

Something something Linux user, btw

As a Windows user, I can't relate lol I don't have this happen to me

Seriously, does anyone know about the update settings? It's not hard to make Win10 not try to update while you're using it.
- And at least since Win 10 the updates take maybe 5 minutes unless you have held them off for months.
- It's easier to never learn anything and complain that an OS has issues you didn't bother to learn how to overcome.
- Wouldn't it be nice if your PC updated everything in under 2 minutes while you use it without having to restart?

Never had an update take 2 hours. Maybe if your using a computer from 2005.

I had an update take 3 and half hours on a 2019 laptop with a ryzen 5 3550h, 16gb of ddr4 ram and an nvme ssd.

So I moves to gentoo where if unlucky and qtwebengine needs to comiplie the update takes 5+ hours. 😌
What you meant to say: Windows ain't for poor people.

At least now, when you do "update and shut down", it will first restart to actually completely finish the update and then shut down again.

Impressive!

Computers mostly don't force software updates on you, unless you tell them to. (Caveat: IT routinely forces updates on people.) Find the setting where you specifically asked the machine to keep itself updated, and turn it off. If you can't find it, throw the machine away and get a better one where you can be in control:-P. This concludes my sermon for today, I hope you all have some Happy Holidays!:-P

Windows by default forces updates upon you and makes itbhard to disable them. Or make them ask you for updates.
- And for a good reason too. People need to be opt-out to do them automatically, we know how XP looked like.
- Makes sense - why allow people to administer their own machines? :-P
You forgot that part in which you say it doesn't apply to windows users