• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    With Win10 and later (I honestly don’t remember with Win 8), by default updates happen in the background, and will be applied and a reboot scheduled.

    It won’t necessarily force a reboot, but it can reboot when you’re not there. I’ve had updates with reboot happen when I was away for 30 minutes, on a machine I was setting up and hadn’t yet configured policies.

    • PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The updates quietly happening in the background are still a problem because they can’t be paused or canceled and they use a lot of sysrme resources to get done. And when they’re complete, your experience is less stable till the reboot.

      I usually notice them when my work computer slows down and things start having more bugs than usual. My work computer has very respectable specs