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I've got to stop doing Windows Updates

Back when I used Windows, there were plenty of boot looping updates in Windows Vista, 7 and 10. You had three options. Either you disable Windows Updates, reinstall Windows or find a way to delete or prevent the specific patch that breaks your Windows installation.

On Windows 10 I was forced to disable Windows Updates altogether, because the updates never finished even after running overnight. I have stopped using Windows since 2018.

just delete the service entirely, same with defender

it's great

my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP

if it gets hacked: I simply don't care

You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem

it's running Microslop Windows, so it's born compromised

it's an OS with constant built-in ads and spyware

it would have been considered malware in the 2000s

Not being an incompetent or inexperienced Windows user, I'm vanishingly unlikely to be infected by a bot network trojan... and if that does happen, rest assured, I'll notice it.

Windows Update, on the other hand, is part of my threat model.

You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.

I have a 2nd nvme in that machine for bazzite

not quite there for me yet I'm afraid!

sometimes games just won't work on Linux, doom the dark ages refuses to work on Linux for me.

VR?

> unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat

Sadly, I do :( Valorant is the main one that keeps my Windows partition around, for better or worse. Also sadly still there's some performance overhead for Linux gaming today, I hope that goes away in the future (for Intel/Nvidia cards especially)

You can't do that. Eventually, something will stop working because it requires a certain Windows update.

Then reinstall with a later ISO and cripple it again. On the whole that's probably more reliable.

It is called Windows 10.

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