βah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess Iβm out for the night guysβ
I hate Windows, but this has never happened neither to me nor my friends. (Granted I only have like 3 friends who use it regularly)
I had Windows 10 do it once over however many years i was using it (was a fairly early adopter), and Windows 11 has never done it.
Anyone who can easily use Linux can just make Windows not do that kind of shit, and not auto-update, and block the connection from basically all Windows processes.
It happened to me often!
Part of that Iβm sure itβs the fact that I work nights, but Windows refuses to acknowledge that during my work hours is not an appropriate time to install updates.
Simply stepping away to get a coffee or use the restroom is enough for Windows to decide now is the time to reboot and install updates for an hour or so and you better hope you saved everything before stepping away.
As a matter of fact, one of those instances is the one where the update broke my bitlocker encryption and I lost everything that wasnβt backed up. That was my last day using Windows.
Was it your personal computer or a company managed computer? Either way, when to automatically start updates is just a setting thatβs easily set. As is the βpause updates for X weeksβ so that you have more weeks to do an intentional reboot. There might be some major security patches theyβve forced through anyways? But I donβt think Iβve had any windows update issues since like 2017 or 2018.
