We keep it paused (or off) in VirtualBox for one small piece of proprietary vendor software.
Really enjoying these guys: https://www.devuan.org/
Regarding the updates, I don't consider it more annoying than the macOS equivalent, and it's understandable that MS wants to push users to upgrade, to ensure they have the latest security updates.
I have not seen security threats alerts with Windows Defender enabled, and without downloading suspicious (i.e. unknown/unsigned) executables, which also seems reasonable. Actually, it's less painful to run unsigned executable on Windows, than on macOS.
If would be better if they had a setting to turn them off. All of them. But this mess is comming from mobile where every developer thinks his program (app ) is the most important.
> Regarding the updates, I don't consider it more annoying than the macOS equivalent, and it's understandable that MS wants to push users to upgrade, to ensure they have the latest security updates.
The problem is that they do not separate features and security updates. And also they don't test them enough, and this, combined with forced updates, breaks things.
> I have not seen security threats alerts with Windows Defender enabled, and without downloading suspicious (i.e. unknown/unsigned) executables, which also seems reasonable. Actually, it's less painful to run unsigned executable on Windows, than on macOS.
Antivirus programs have long stopped being useful. And, as also google has shown, you can have signed malware executables. Also there are a lot of programs which, technically not malware, will behave like malware and defender and others do nothing about it.
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It's particularly upsetting considering that much of the complexity in NT comes from having a micro kernel which is supposed to make that kind of thing easier.
Indeed. I just want MS to merge the control panel & $ettings in a fluent UI, for the love of god. do that and update a few UI formats away from the half-assed reimplementation of W7 & 8(which it is) and frankly Windows is in a great position at that rate.