You missed one.
Forced updates that WILL reboot your machine in the middle of active tasks.
For a âworkstationâ this is unacceptable.
No they wonât, there is gpo for this. Scheduled hours also makes it much nicer.
Scheduled hours is not the same.
if i have a task that is running for several days, then it will. And donât give me the bullshit of âyou should be running a serverâ because either macOS or Linux client OS can do it. iâve had it happen. there is a minimum window of 5 (from memory) hours per day.
My hours change and are flexible.
Point is - there is a point to not running Windows (even if it âincludes linuxâ). Control.
Iâve had upwards of 50 days uptime on Windows 10 Pro 1809
And what microsoft supported method did you bypass updates with?
I already pointed out gpo works. You can prevent rebooting until you choose.
Just because you donât like the answer I gave doesnât mean you get to move the goalposts.
So far the most Iâve got was 14 days on my workstation at work because for some reason the snipping tool got fuckenâ borked and the only way to resolve was to reboot.
Iâve had 3 months but uh⌠There were memory leaks. It wasnât fun to use. Iâm at about 1.5 right now.
Yeah lol. Not really an issue with a properly managed setup.
If I didnât leave everything open all the time I could squeeze moreâŚnot that I should.
Two groups policies.
Updates had to be manually initiated. I was notified about pending updates, though.
Maybe re-title this thread âIs this The Year of Linux Gaming?â It seems to have been derailed by Windows fanbois.
Yep, things sure have improved a lot in the last couple of years. The amount of games that âjust workâ if you âEnable SteamPlay with all other titlesâ is staggering. Proton is turning out to be awesome.
I wasnât even planning on playing any games on the new daily driver I built early last year, but I thought âwhat the heckâ and gave it a go. Crikey! So many things âjust workâ and, when they donât work perfectly, the issues are usually minor.
I was particularly blown away by being able to participate in a beta of a Unity game being developed for Steam on/for Windows. The developer was really nice, just clicked a few buttons, and viola â a build for Linux. The only substantial bug ended up being caused by Unity itself, was easily worked around by passing -force-vulkan
as a startup option to the game, and was fixed with the next release of Unity anyway. The amount of additional effort required to âsupport Linuxâ just seemed so small â no wonder weâre seeing more games.
The way I see it: The rise of mobile gaming shattered the whole âdevelop for Windows onlyâ mentality because Windows crashed and burned on mobile. Development environments were forced to extend so that they could target iOS/Android and continue to follow the money. Linux benefited from this shift to multi-platform support. Add to that continuing efforts from Valve and those working on graphics/compatibility layers, and⌠here we are. âLinux Gamingâ is now a thing â a tangible thing that is growing daily at a rate I, personally, have never seen before. Fantastic!
I havenât powered-up my Win8 gaming rig for nearly a year. Donât see any short-term need to do so, either. Iâm not ready to format the drive and crush my Win8 Install disk just yet⌠but things are looking promising.
Maybe 2018 was actually âThe Year of Linux Gamingâ but it flew in underneath the radar at such high speed that folks just missed it?
It definitely is for me. As a whole, depends what constitutes âthe year of linuxâ.
I think linux has come a long way but still the support is nowhere near windows. The thing where you buy a piece of hardware or software and it just works, or if not, you just download a driver or an update from the web, just doesnât exist yet on linux in most cases.
Core hardware works and itâs easy enough to get drivers for the stuff that doesnât out of the box. I, personally, can pick and choose peripherals that have support on linux or just work, and I, personally, can pick and choose the games I play that will work on linux (of which there are a lot these days, a lot more than people give it credit for), and the software that I use.
Iâm not too picky and I donât have a professional workload, nor do I care about most of the modern AAA games infested with drm and proprietary launchers.
For my media, internet and gaming use, linux works great and Iâm glad to see more and more games and support available for it. However I donât see the masses adopting it anytime soon and I have to say, if microsoft got their act together and realeased an os that was usable for me, I would probably go back to windows in a heartbeat.
Powershell script that runs at logon to disable windows update services and check every 15 seconds. Not hard to add a secondary function that does this until a certain date/day/ time and then forcefully runs a windows update and then switch back
Every year sin 1999 has been the year of the Linux desktop. It will continue until Linux is dead and gone.
Thatâs a bit overkill when you could just set a single policy to notify but not download for updates.
Iâve used the GPO to set the Update to 2 - Notify for download and install, but Iâve noticed windows doesnât obey that for certain updates. So just to be safe, I setup a Powershell script to make sure it doesnât pull a fast one that bricks the computer (like with the 1809 update)
Setting the update service to disabled works as well from what Iâve seen. Any attempt to install will error out.
The thing is windows will sometimes turn this back on, hence the powershell script to make sure it stays that way