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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When did you last use windows, lol? Windows is pretty damn stable nowadays. I don't think an update has ever broken my windows 10 install that is still going from 2016.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've gotten a number of calls from clients recently where a Windows update uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers, making their Bluetooth mouse and keyboard unusable.

I've even had a few where an update uninstalled the WiFi drivers so they couldn't even download the drivers without a wired network connection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.

If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.

Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn't have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.

[–] CosmicCleric 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for

Curious as to which distro you were using?

(Yeah, I know, but please, humor me.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Debian sever. This was early 2018 or late 2017.