• BoozillaEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    I love all the long waiting and useless messages that comes with it, too.

    • Preparing to download.
    • Downloading. useless progress percentage
    • Preparing to install.
    • Installing. more useless progress percentage
    • Please do not turn off your computer.
    • “Hi”.
    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      8•1 year ago

      meanwhile updates on linux telling me exactly what is happening in real time, working completely in the background, and politely informing me that i may wish to reboot to apply all the updates properly

      • BoozillaEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Windows: Imma let you finish but first we gotta update my man. Will only take an hour. Maybe three.

        Linux: Save the drama for your mamma.

        • lazynoobletEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          Linux updates are much superior, but Windows updates have not taken more than 5 minutes for me for a long time.

          I just hate all the reboots. Linux can update everything, even kernels now, and no downtime. Reminds me of crap home internet routers: “oh you changed the date&time? Then I gotta reboot”

          • BoozillaEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            The routine Windows updates do go pretty quickly, but the “cumulative updates” can still take a very long time in my experience. I have to patch multiple servers and workstations at my job and it sucks. And if you have a hyper-v guest that lies dormant most of the time, but you need to update it once or twice a month, may the gods help you. Takes forever to even CHECK for updates, because Windows freaks the hell out if your PC remains turned off for a period of time.

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Don’t forget when the update stage actually reads 100%, which makes no logical sense because if the stage was at 100%, you wouldn’t still be telling me we are processing it as the current stage.

      • @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1•1 year ago

        Somehow Windows struggles with file i/o and always has been. When copying stuff to floppy disks in Win 3 or 95 the progress bar steadily grew to 100% and since floppies were loud, you could hear that the actual copying only started then and you had to wait longer staring at 100% than the progress bar before.

        • @Zron@lemmy.world
          2•1 year ago

          You just gave me a nostalgia bomb of copying files on Win98/XP and watching the little files fly from one folder to the other for 5 minutes after the progress bar filled up.

          I miss little animations like that, makes me wish there were more fun little things in OS UIs these days. Now everything is just a bar and a number.