It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.
I now have my render box completely disconnected from the internet and I task it remotely.
Specifically, in group policy:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > "Configure Automatic Updates" and "No auto-restart with logged-on users for scheduled automatic update installations"
Don't do that on a computer you care about...
Until that happens, consider setting your active hours manually in the Update & Security -> Windows Update settings panel. The update system is designed to avoid automatic restarts during active hours.
You can also pause updates for a period of time as well when you know that you don't want your system disrupted overnight.
I empathize with your frustration around the timing and I would encourage you to file feedback asking for more control over when updates happen.
With that being said, I now have the box in question completely disconnected from the internet and I task it remotely via serial.
I was right in the middle of something, and my first instinct was to Google how to stop the damn reboot. Of course, my computer was already rebooting by then.
I now know to turn on the setting to postpone updates for a month. But wow, I can't believe such unbelievably hostile UX is the out of the box experience.
(Also, side note, I'm pleasantly surprised at how robust and hassle free the Windows experience has otherwise become. I may even prefer this laptop to my MacBook, which I never thought I'd find myself thinking in a million years.)
Not super great when the whole point of not upgrading to the latest BIOS was because it introduced a critical bug.
My entire OS weights 26gb, I can remote into servers across the globe faster than you can get a right-click menu on a win10 desktop, and I want to finish by reminding windows 10 users that their videogame OS ships with a start menu and boots like an orangutan with a PHD in sales.
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The few companies in this business that target GNU/Linux produce software that pales in comparison to offerings on Windows & Mac OS X. For instance, PFClean by The Pixel Farm barely holds a candle to DIAMANT.
Now, this obviously has nothing to do with them targeting GNU/Linux, but at the end of the day you have to use the best tools for the job at hand.
EDIT: I am pretty damn proud of it though, nearly every week I'm finding some button I can "not have to click anymore" and packages that support that get recorded in the azure-os build script.
There's sandbox in Windows now, and before that there was SanboxIE which I never needed though.
The backup on Windows is transparent and keeps all versions of the files. You just need to specify destination when it starts nagging.
Your Python script has nothing to do with OS. I have a few C# scripts for DynDNS and other stuff.
Windows takes about 20GB, and lives with full Visual Studio on a 60GB drive with about 15GB left.
Sounds like you haven't really used Windows after 7.
And yeah, not only I can remote in under a second with either SSH or RDP, I can do gaming easily, train my TensorFlow models, and use multiple monitors with a tiling WM.
Oh, and my laptops sleep well.
They're basing everything on what they read in Mac printed magazines about "Windoze" back in the late 80s.
I would probably use a frozen in time Windows 7 indefinitely, but for the first time in my life, I'm seriously considering moving to desktop Linux.
It's a rolling release, so you always get up-to-date software. Installing software is easier than any other OS (just use the Add/Remove app not the command line). I have tried desktop Linux for years and I never really got an effortlessly stable and worry free system until I used that distro.
I've been running it on one laptop and two desktop workstations now for over two years. It never interrupts me, I update when I want to and it's based on Arch so it's got excellent documentation.
I ask because most of the time the answers are vague or sketchy. There are legit answers. However, usually it's along the lines of installing a game they torrented that's trying to load keylogger.kext and failing. or 'I just don't like it, so it shouldn't exist'
Those lock down parts are stopping normal people, who arn't well versed in say... not installing things from links sent from root@printer.cpa-lawyer.br claiming to be their companies ceo.
The Windows UI is shockingly tweakable. You can buy programs to do all sorts of things, e.g. multi monitor assistants.
With OS X, Apple's way is fantastic, but if you want to step outside it you're in trouble.
The Unix underlying OS X was strictly superior, although now there's WSL it's much less of an advantage.
It's nuts, but you can still manage to do it. Maybe a handful of people would ever actually need to do it, so why would it be a default, or even an option people might accidently set?
So a few months back after an update - not sure if it was Windows or nVidia - my graphic card drive starts crashing. And even though in the event log it shows the driver recovered, the display would never come back and I’d have to reboot the machine. Swapping cards solved the issue so I figured it might be my 1080ti or perhaps my power supply was starting to fail and not supplying enough power (others with the error I was getting reporting replacing their power supply fixed it).
I was all set to get a new power supply when for whatever reason I decided to test Display Port. It worked! Well, with the annoying behavior for why I didn’t want to use Display Port under Windows in the first place.
Sigh.
Bottom line - no vendor or platform is perfect. They all have their issues. In general I find I have far fewer problems with Apple; as it should be - they have far more control over all the variables at play.
Also if we ever had 100% trouble free computing what would people on the Internet have to complain about?
This is more about Apple's continual decreasing quality level unless you do buy all-in (and as much as they are pretty, I get what I need from these 2 LG monitors, and don't need the Pro Display XDR). I mean, it seriously appears as though they didn't bother to test DSC on anything but the Pro Display with Big Sur, when this stuff worked just fine.
Edit: I don't know what I expected.
It depends a lot on personal preference and what you want to use it for. (Families with a lot of kids need something like a minivan, some people need a truck with huge towing capacity, some people want good gas mileage, etc.)
My personal opinions:
* Ubuntu - when you want something well-supported and everything usually just works out of the box
* Pop!_OS - same as above but gaming is more important to you
* Debian - when you want stability rather than the latest features
* Arch - when you want control over every aspect of your system
* CentOS - when you want a rock-solid server platform (though this has changed very recently)
And there are dozens of other flavors of Linux with different strengths and weaknesses and different levels of support.
So it depends on your goals!
(FWIW I'm using Arch and have found Steam support to be pretty seamless, apart from needing to install PulseAudio as bare ALSA had issues.)
For an absolute beginner, it's probably better for gaming. For people who already know what they're doing, it's probably not a noticeably better gaming experience.
Need, though? No.
I'd also like it if Tidal could play without popping and hiccuping on a 12 core Xeon at idle under Big Sur (this also worked fine on Catalina, but I've not found much on this so I'm reserving my blame). I'm getting flashbacks to my 486 trying to play 320kbps MP3s...