It keeps restarting itself at night and I lose shit every single time it does this. I cannot believe this is the official way microsoft designed this fucking OS to run
[ - ] froggy 1 point 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 22:06:59 ago (+1/-0)
Issues nonstop. Pick your issue. The Frankenstein kernel. The shitty package system (snap). The pay to play model for some packages. The crashes and overall system mayhem that comes from trying to upgrade the 6 month updates.
I've given Ubuntu tries numerous times over 20 years. It's never gotten better. The offshoots like pop and mint are ok, but honestly your better off using a Debian based distro, or better yet, am arch based one
I have been actively using it for just over 16 years now. It started off kinda cool, but everything you have observed is spot on.
I have been using it for work just because my boss suggested it. There is no reason I need to continue using it, and it just gets worse with every new version. I have been strongly considering fedora and debian.
[ - ] froggy 1 point 2 monthsFeb 15, 2024 01:35:34 ago (+1/-0)
Debian is a wonky beast. Even with backports, Stable can be annoying to use if you need current drivers or have newer hardware. Testing and Sid can act up (See MX Linux complaints) because it's not designed to run in that method. I can't comment much on Fedora as I haven't used it since the 2010s, but I do see it popping up a lot more on ProtonDB reports. I'm just not a fan of Gnome DE, so Fedora has never appealed much to me.
Use an operating system that doesn't tell you what is "allowed". Is it the tool or are you? If you use tools that tell you what you can and can't do the real tool is you.
I'm sitting not far from a new install of windows 10 that does not have the win10 windows update service enabled. Hasn't updated or rebooted in weeks (we had to restart the machine for unrelated reasons).
There are guides to how to not only disable but complete delete the update service. I think that machine was a combination of regedit and disabling and deleting the update service. At any rate, it is possible.
Haven't tried win11 yet, but I think it's much harder.
Can confirm, my laptop and desktop are set up that way because I was sick to fucking death of finding gb upon gb upon gb of downloads and fuckin updates and shit and some of the other shit changes they keep making.
I've managed to stop windows update for quite some time now and I'm suprised that I haven't seen the solution posted anywhere yet. What you'll need to do is first open a console window with admin rights then type the following commands with no quotes. First type 'net stop wuauserv'. This stops the windows update service. Next youll need to navigate to the windows directory so type in 'cd \windows'. Then youll need to remove the softwaredistribution folder which is where the updates get downloaded to and create a fake folder before the windows update service restarts itself so enter in 'rd softwaredistribution /s' to remove the folder and then enter 'mklink /d "c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution" "x:\SoftwareDistribution"' (make sure to leave in the double quotes) What this does is it creates a softwaredistribution folder that points to the path x:\softwaredistribution which doesn't exist and windows update just comes up with an error anytime you try to update it. If you already have a drive x: then change the letter x to a letter that's not being used. Hope that helps.
Open your windows search, type in "advanced system settings". Open the search result, it should open a window called "system properties". There click on the "Advanced" tab. There at "startup and recovery" click on settings. There uncheck the box for "automatically restart"
That's for a system failure. His computer is rebooting due to windows 10 being setup to auto-restart after downloading and installing updates.
1. Click on the “Start” button and type gpedit.msc press Enter. 2. In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to Computer Configuration -> ->Administrative Templates-> -> Windows Components-> -> Windows Update 3. Double-click on “No auto-restart with automatic installations of scheduled updates”. 4. Select "Enabled", and then click "OK". 5. Close the local group policy editor.
If the above steps don't have the effect you desired please let me know. You might not have gpedit and may need to do extra work to get it. Home versions of windows don't have it installed but there is a workaround.
If you want to disable updates go to start and type 'services'. Click on services app. From there click on anything in the list and hit the 'w' key. Now look for 'windows update'. Right click the 'windows update' line, click on properties and change the startup to disabled.
that's only for large orgs that schedule updates and reboots remotely, all you can do is change active hours in update settings daily so it never has the chance to reboot
it will reboot eventually, but that gives you at least 1-2 weeks
No you can do it on your own computer. I've done this to one of my computers that had windows 10 on it. But if the other way you describe also works then that's good too. The way I describes works without having to reset it.
He didn't specify if it was after an update. Regardless, your guide is super helpfull. I had my machine randomly restart, even without any updates. I concluded that windows 10 is very liberal what it considers a system failure. After turning off the automatic restart, I have had no issues.
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[ - ] froggy 1 point 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 22:06:59 ago (+1/-0)
I've given Ubuntu tries numerous times over 20 years. It's never gotten better. The offshoots like pop and mint are ok, but honestly your better off using a Debian based distro, or better yet, am arch based one
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2 monthsFeb 15, 2024 00:42:42 ago (+1/-0)
I have been using it for work just because my boss suggested it. There is no reason I need to continue using it, and it just gets worse with every new version. I have been strongly considering fedora and debian.
[ + ] froggy
[ - ] froggy 1 point 2 monthsFeb 15, 2024 01:35:34 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] rapid_water
[ - ] rapid_water 1 point 2 monthsFeb 16, 2024 09:43:50 ago (+1/-0)
https://www.diskpart.com/windows-11/windows-11-wont-shut-down-1503.html
Solution 8. Disable Fast startup
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[ - ] JustALover 2 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 11:07:18 ago (+2/-0)
There are guides to how to not only disable but complete delete the update service. I think that machine was a combination of regedit and disabling and deleting the update service. At any rate, it is possible.
Haven't tried win11 yet, but I think it's much harder.
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I'm absolutely done with Windows after this. I'm going to maxx out my autism stat and learn my way around Linux
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[ - ] Monica 2 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 11:43:13 ago (+2/-0)*
1. Click on the “Start” button and type
gpedit.msc
press Enter.
2. In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to
Computer Configuration ->
->Administrative Templates->
-> Windows Components->
-> Windows Update
3. Double-click on “No auto-restart with automatic installations of scheduled updates”.
4. Select "Enabled", and then click "OK".
5. Close the local group policy editor.
If the above steps don't have the effect you desired please let me know. You might not have gpedit and may need to do extra work to get it. Home versions of windows don't have it installed but there is a workaround.
If you want to disable updates go to start and type 'services'. Click on services app. From there click on anything in the list and hit the 'w' key. Now look for 'windows update'. Right click the 'windows update' line, click on properties and change the startup to disabled.
[ + ] mikenigger
[ - ] mikenigger 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 12:14:58 ago (+0/-0)*
it will reboot eventually, but that gives you at least 1-2 weeks
[ + ] Monica
[ - ] Monica 2 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 12:27:36 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] germ22
[ - ] germ22 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2024 12:22:30 ago (+0/-0)
I had my machine randomly restart, even without any updates. I concluded that windows 10 is very liberal what it considers a system failure. After turning off the automatic restart, I have had no issues.
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