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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (www.theregister.com)
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[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

What is Windows supposed to do?

Correctly report that there are pending updates when there are?

Download them in one batch, requiring only one restart?

Download and install them at a reasonable speed on my 1Mbps connection and SSD?

And I simply do not buy that anyone outside of HDD and unstable internet users had to wait more than 1h at absolute worst to install a half a year load of updates.

Apparently from the comments here this doesn't affect everyone. If you don't believe that this can happen to anyone because it doesn't happen to you, I'm not interested in convincing you.