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If it didn't require a reboot, an automatic update wouldn't bother me at all. I hate that my one remaining Windows machine is never in the same state I left it because it rebooted during the night.

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Rebooting, and nuking settings. I’ve lost count of the number of times I come back to the PC and it’s rebooted, forgotten my monitor layout, forgotten my sound settings, etc etc.

And conveniently forgetting that I set my default browser to anything other than whatever-microsoft-vomited-up-most-recently.

I lean towards this too. Microsoft and iTunes can't seem to get package management right. Maybe now that they've dabbled in Linux they'll update their process.

iTunes is dead on Mac. Assuming it will go away on windows soon.

What do people use?

Apple Music, tv and podcasts apps.

Boo.

The one that really, really gets me is I can’t RDP onto my work computer after a reboot which was initiated after an automatic update. Meaning my computer is completely useless to me until I go into the office again. Unreal.

If I had the time and the drive I would transfer my work flow over to Linux. I use it everyday, just not on my work computer. It’s getting more and more painful having to deal with Windows.

You can disable automatic reboots.

Except when you can't, because Windows will conveniently forget about your setting (or, some random OEM garbage for "maintaining" your computer will pop up a "rebooting in 5... 4..." message in the middle of the night.)

If you mean by disabling the scheduled task, this doesn't stick. Even if you delete all the scheduled tasks, or otherwise mess with them, they always come back

You say "delete", but are you actually overwriting the task executable with garbage, unlinking it, then creating a folder named "stupidshit.exe" (or whatever the executable was called) so that re-creating it will fail, or just removing it from a list?

next year:

> Microsoft has been continually tweaking the way the Windows 10 update reboot process works based on "user feedback"

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