• @InvaderDJ
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        81 year ago

        It’s also an unimportant stat considering that any modern, well configured Windows machine should have reboot times of under a minute.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Thing is there are so few things to count against Windows compared to MacOS or Linux, they need to make the most minor of inconveniences seem astronomical by comparison. “Haha you have to install a security update you can delay for 5 weeks that takes 4 seconds to install”

          • @batmaniam
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            It’s the “you can delay” bit. It’s MY machine. If I don’t want the update so be it. I get the windows os is a liscence not a purchase, so they have every right. That doesn’t mean I have to like it, and I’m happy there are alternatives. That permeates through the whole OS. If theres software I don’t want, just because I don’t like the name, I can remove it.

            That might not matter to you, but it matters to a lot of people. Enough, in fact, to build an maintain multiple operating systems, as it turns out.

            • @[email protected]
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              If your fine want updates you can literally just… Duane them through group policy. But that’s not a good idea. What they are forcing are security updates. You really want those. They don’t take very long at all and their effectiveness increases based on how many people are up to date. The more people who are up to date the more difficult and expensive it is to create malicious software, it also becomes more difficult to spread malicious software to begin with.

              • @batmaniam
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                That sounds very much more convoluted than what I’m doing now, which also allows me to not have polls on what my favorite BBQ side dish is in my menu options. So again, happy it works for you, but I’ll stick to linux thanks.

          • @1847953620
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            Windows updates are particularly under-tested

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              In January of last year MS put out a kb that would repeatedly reboot your machine if it was an active directory controller, or if it was a hyper-v host it would refuse to turn on VMs, if you were running 2012 R2.

              Not only this is bullshit for a production os (like this is 5 minutes of testing, come on), it took them several months to put out a corrective KB. In the mean time, all you could do was not install it and try to uninstall it on hosts that would reboot repeatedly. It’s windows server so it doesn’t nag you for updates but still.

          • @InvaderDJ
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            01 year ago

            Nowadays especially so. It’s like Android vs iOS. Both OSes are good and now so are Windows, Linux and macOS. Use whatever you prefer, just know how to use it so you don’t blow up non-issues.

    • Sockenklaus
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      I’m not sure if you’re joking or being serious. Long uptimes are not an issue anymore on Windows.

      • @scottywh
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        Except occasionally when you factor in the automatic forced updates and resulting required reboots.

        • @drekly
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          I haven’t had that since like xp or vista days. Just told it to do it when I ask and it always does.

        • @rambaroo
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          You can turn those off with the pro version.

          • @scottywh
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            21 year ago

            Lol… I’ve worked in IT for over 25 years… I’m aware.

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      tbf I regularly have an uptime of 14+ minutes on my gaming rig.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Amateur. My dev laptop restarts about 1.5 times per Windows update, my gaming desktop restarts a couple times a year

        It makes you more in touch with the universe. With runtimes lasting months, you get to see how cosmic rays cause new and unexpected “features”. I’ve started to look up solar weather when things start to act extra weird, and it actually lines up

    • atocci
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      I’m at 15 on my Minecraft server now, but I’m pretty sure the last restart was intentional also

      • @[email protected]
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        It hadn’t been updated in 3.5 years? And the UPS (I’m assuming it had one) battery lasted that long too?

        • @elscallr
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          It hadn’t been updated in 3.5 years?

          Remarkably common for more Exchange or AD servers then you’d be comfortable knowing about

    • @whileloop
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      I once saw a computer at my workplace with over a year of uptime…

    • @MyFairJulia
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      I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as iPad OS, is in fact, GNU/Unix/NextSTEP/Mac OS X/iPad OS, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Unix plus NextSTEP plus Mac OS X plus iPad OS. iPad OS is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed source component of a fully functioning Apple system made useful by the NextSTEP corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS more or less abiding to POSIX.

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      I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Windows Terminal, is in fact, PowerShell/Windows Terminal, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, PowerShell plus Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal is not a shell unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning command line environment made useful by the PowerShell shell, command line utilities and vital cmdlets comprising a full environment as defined by Microsoft.

      Many computer users run a modified version of PowerShell every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of PowerShell which is widely used today is often called Windows Terminal, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the PowerShell system, developed by the PowerShell Project.

      There really is a Windows Terminal, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows Terminal is the terminal emulator: the program in the system that handles console I/O for the other programs that you run. The terminal emulator is an essential part of a command line environment, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete command line environment. Windows Terminal is normally used in combination with the PowerShell shell: the whole system is basically PowerShell with Windows Terminal added, or PowerShell/Windows Terminal. All the so-called Windows Terminal distributions are really distributions of PowerShell/Windows Terminal!

      • @ricdeh
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        21 year ago

        Damn this is too good

        • @Cheebus
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          I’d just like to interject for a moment. What they’re refering to as Windows Terminal, is in fact, PowerShell/Windows Terminal, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, PowerShell plus Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal is not a shell unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning command line environment made useful by the PowerShell shell, command line utilities and vital cmdlets comprising a full environment as defined by Microsoft.

          Many computer users run a modified version of PowerShell every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of PowerShell which is widely used today is often called Windows Terminal, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the PowerShell system, developed by the PowerShell Project.

          There really is a Windows Terminal, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows Terminal is the terminal emulator: the program in the system that handles console I/O for the other programs that you run. The terminal emulator is an essential part of a command line environment, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete command line environment. Windows Terminal is normally used in combination with the PowerShell shell: the whole system is basically PowerShell with Windows Terminal added, or PowerShell/Windows Terminal. All the so-called Windows Terminal distributions are really distributions of PowerShell/Windows Terminal!

  • @over_clox
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    Cool, now do GNU/TempleOS LOL!

  • @jarfil
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    DJGPP, running GNU/DOS before it became popular.

  • @mvirts
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    21 year ago

    We wanted MinWG, we got MinGW.

  • @mvirts
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    21 year ago

    Msft told me to whistle, but all I can do is whine