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Do you have a PC?

Are you aware how user-hostile is Windows to even allowing you to turn on your computer without creating an MSN "account" [0]

Are you aware that not every user on HN is a software engineer that is comfortable with changing registry values?

Its 2023. Empathize with your user or see your startup go dead without funding

(Not to whom you're replying)

I'm entirely comfortable with configuring my Windows to behave how I want, but over the years the increasing user hostility of Windows has driven me to Linux, such that I only use Windows On a work machine, and I'm reminded almost daily about how good my decision was to make the switch.

What I mean is: even those of us who can, are sick of having to.

Registry values? It's pretty easy to tell Windows when to do updates. This is nonsense.

You sound like a person who buys ugly Walmart jeans because they are cheap, efficient and economical and then wonder why no one talks to you.

People who refuse to talk to me based on the looks/branding/cost of my clothing aren't people I care to talk to

I think the poster is referring to the loss of desktop state, not necessarily the loss of unsaved documents.

> your system

If you can't disable updates, it's not "your" system.

Note the change from "My Computer" to "This PC." Subtle, isn't it?