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Why are people even rebooting?

The only time my windows computer reboots is when the power goes out.

(Also, I highly recommend staying away from windows, Microsoft is getting incredibly intrusive. If my work didn't use windows exclusively, I'd be on linux)

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Windows updates! Security updates every month. (Second Tuesday of each month.) It's lovely. Last time I checked the patch notes. Okay, nothing that affects me. Two days later I found my computer rebooted without any nagging or warning beforehand :|

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday

I hope you live in Buenos Aires where the power goes out weekly or else you are running a very insecure computer and are a threat to everyone around you. Unfortunately users like yourself forced Microsoft to require restarts for security updates which make the world a better place but really piss off the non-technical people.

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