You clearly haven’t touched Debian or an immutable distro. I’ve been happily using Bazzite for 2 years on my laptop on the same install without any settings resetting themselves. It simply is not a thing outside of windows and some other poorly optimised operating systems. You should try them before posting your opinions as fact.
Edit: I see now I’m not talking to a serious person - rather someone who intentionally says dumb shit to get into flame wars. Have the day you deserve. Now, and forever!
Back when the most hated thing about Windows was the forced updates, I likewise didn’t have that problem because I would update my system often.
For me, as somebody who never had issues and never lost work from it, the update process of every Linux distro I have ever used is still 10x better than Windows ever was.
And honestly that’s a microcosm of the overall Windows vs Linux comparison for me. Ask yourself who the stakeholders are in the design, and of them whose desires get priority. With Linux you generally have the users and the devs (who are themselves users), sprinkled with some commercial interests that contribute for various reasons. With Windows you have users and devs seemingly at the bottom, followed by numerous different priorities inside Microsoft that range from “make the company better” to “keep this department relevant for one more quarter”, you have they who are on the most high – the shareholders – and I guess now you have a pretty strong presence of the US government.
So the purpose of the update process in Linux, whether command line or a friendly graphical interface, is to update the selected items. That’s it. As always, do it quickly, efficiently, and with as little disruption as possible.
The purpose of the update process in Windows includes updating the selected items, sure. But it obviously also includes turning One Drive back on. And history suggests that Windows Update’s true to-do list has waaaaay more than 2 items on it, lol.
I haven’t had a problem with everything staying off, except one drive turning back on which was annoying but took 5 secs to turn it off again.
Have a great day
If this is a deal breaker, then no OS will satisfy you
You clearly haven’t touched Debian or an immutable distro. I’ve been happily using Bazzite for 2 years on my laptop on the same install without any settings resetting themselves. It simply is not a thing outside of windows and some other poorly optimised operating systems. You should try them before posting your opinions as fact.
Edit: I see now I’m not talking to a serious person - rather someone who intentionally says dumb shit to get into flame wars. Have the day you deserve. Now, and forever!
Yeah that overly reductive version of his response is mega cope.
Proving the point, it’s a never ending battle with windblowz
If that is a problem for you, just wait till you try Linux
It’s not a problem for me, because I use Linux.
Back when the most hated thing about Windows was the forced updates, I likewise didn’t have that problem because I would update my system often.
For me, as somebody who never had issues and never lost work from it, the update process of every Linux distro I have ever used is still 10x better than Windows ever was.
And honestly that’s a microcosm of the overall Windows vs Linux comparison for me. Ask yourself who the stakeholders are in the design, and of them whose desires get priority. With Linux you generally have the users and the devs (who are themselves users), sprinkled with some commercial interests that contribute for various reasons. With Windows you have users and devs seemingly at the bottom, followed by numerous different priorities inside Microsoft that range from “make the company better” to “keep this department relevant for one more quarter”, you have they who are on the most high – the shareholders – and I guess now you have a pretty strong presence of the US government.
So the purpose of the update process in Linux, whether command line or a friendly graphical interface, is to update the selected items. That’s it. As always, do it quickly, efficiently, and with as little disruption as possible.
The purpose of the update process in Windows includes updating the selected items, sure. But it obviously also includes turning One Drive back on. And history suggests that Windows Update’s true to-do list has waaaaay more than 2 items on it, lol.