I thought the Windows update system is actually not too bad. At least compared to Mac.
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Compared to Mac? Macβs is so much better? The number of times windows has fucked me over by updating on a restart.
Fair enough. My experience on Mac has been pretty bad compared to Windows but to be honest there could be recency bias there. I use Mac every day for work and don't use Windows very often but at least Windows has never suddenly closed all my apps because it decided it was time to update.
I think you got lucky then, windows is known to do exactly that. Well, these days it at least gives you a warning that it will do it in 15 minutes or so.
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One thing I've seen my computer do a few times: log me out, by itself. Some rare times I try and unlock back into my session, my current open and active user with my programs running, and instead I am greeted not by my desktop as it was when I locked the screen, but rather the lock screen as it was before I even logged in the first time around
windows: installing updates, do not power off
me: the fuck you are dismantles laptop and rips out battery
Linux: shutdown now
Windows after pressing shutdown and update: you wanted to use me still right????
Shutdown isn't shutdown anymore, so it has to reboot for the updates. After the reboot, though, there's no longer a shutdown pending.
for the most part i don't care, but really, all those fucking terminals i left open, i know they're open, that click per window of yes close has never been helpful
I used to override that setting.
I...uh...learned some uses for it.
I bet there were interesting uses.
I won't say i've never shut down a long running process, but i've gotten a lot better at not running them adhoc in a terminal :)
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Just do sysrq+s, sysrq+c (triggers panic) and flip the power switch for instant power off.