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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

For me it was the opposite. I had Ubuntu installed and wanted to do a upgrade to the next release, took around 2 hours "settings things up" where I just said fuck it and force closed it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the Windows community I'm guessing the top message would say:

When you install Linux but didn't realize a dozen locales were preselected

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

“I keep having packages that are not updated when I run apt update; apt upgrade - no matter how many times I type it!!1!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have a laptop still with Windows 10. I got it from my late sister about 4 years ago, booted it up, went and installed Ubuntu (18.04 at the time), and never touched Windows again.

I later read somewhere that W10 was forcibly upgrading itself to W11, so I'm afraid to even boot into it. Should probably take some time to copy everything important over and finally nuke it.

For reference, I've been using Linux since around 2012.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If it isn't encrypted you should be able to mount the Windows partition from Ubuntu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

This little trick bypasses windows passwords btw, booted puppy on my disused win10 machine a while back and mounted my drive without needing my "unlock windows" pin. Used it to rescue files because that win10 install won't pass that pin screen anymore, just input the pin and then black screen forever like it can't load.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, it isn't encrypted. I've mounted the partition before. I just didn't find the time (read: I was lazy :P).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Haha, fair enough, I feel that. I've been procrastinating on my home lab maintenance.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I mean, if it was accidental then... Just turn it off and boot back into Linux? You realise you can just turn it off while it's downloading updates, right? Heck, you can even pause updates long term if you want! 😱 Crazy!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this one i don't understand im in windows insider beta so i get a lot of frequent updates but i never notice them because windows has gotten good at only doing them when im not on the computer. so ill wake up and they're already completed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Your experience is vastly different from mine.

My GF had a Windows laptop until this week and her last straw was three reboots in a row, each with over an hour of waiting for updates on shutdown and startup. She never asked for the updates, and wasn't asked ifbahe wanted to perform them.

Now her password is required for any updates, and she controls her computer,as it should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately, windows likes to wake your computer from sleep to update and reboot without your permission. All unsaved work be damned.

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