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Re: Windows rant

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Windows rant
Date	2025-05-06 05:13 +0000
Message-ID	<m7tk3aF77rvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Mon, 5 May 2025 22:37:34 -0000 (UTC), Peter Flass -- Iron Spring
Software wrote:

> I was stuck, so I decided to  reboot. Next thing I know it's doing
> updates without asking. I'm sitting there watching the spinner and I
> have no way of knowing how progress is going - is this going to take ten
> minutes or ten hours? Finally got to the logon, and it decided to go to
> the spinner again for a while. I had no idea what it was doing,
> installing, or whetever.

I feel your pain. I did the update last month on Patch Tuesday. I'm pretty 
sure I restarted but I'm not going to put my hand on a bible. Yesterday i 
was reviewing the steps to turn on the optional sshd server feature and 
the download seemed to stall out. (yes, you can actually ssh into a 
Windows box like a real computer. It's a feature they don't advertise 
heavily).

Being impatient, I rebooted and got 'Installing updates. Do not turn off 
your computer'. After quite a few games of GNOME Mahjonng I was starting 
to search on 'windows update fails' when it finally got to a log in 
screen. I don't think I'm exaggerating if I say more than 15 minutes.

I did finally get sshd up and running. 

The closest I've come on Linux is doing a version upgrade on Ubuntu. You 
get to a point where it says 'looking for unused software'. I don't know 
where it's looking but that takes forever too.

Thread

Windows rant Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-05-05 22:37 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-06 01:37 +0000
    Re: Windows rant Not Necessary <not@necessary.invalid> - 2025-06-30 09:37 +0530
      Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-30 06:47 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-06-30 13:41 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-01 00:06 +0000
          Re: Windows rant John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-01 08:13 -0700
        Re: Windows rant Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2025-07-01 20:12 +0200
          Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-02 01:13 +0000
            Re: Windows rant "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-07-02 16:30 +0100
              Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-02 20:05 +0000
                Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-02 22:40 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-07-15 16:54 +0000
  Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-06 05:13 +0000
    Re: Windows rant scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-06 14:08 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000
        Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:11 +0000
      Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:06 +0000
    Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-06 20:41 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-06 22:36 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-07 12:49 +0000
          Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-07 21:57 +0000
            Re: Windows rant Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-08 11:50 +0000
              Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-08 19:53 +0000
      Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:17 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-07 21:52 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-06 20:30 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Berend Lettinga <berendlettinga@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-03 17:26 +0200
    Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-03 18:33 +0000
      Re: Windows rant John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 11:49 -0700

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