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[–] Boozilla 86 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I love all the long waiting and useless messages that comes with it, too.

  • Preparing to download.
  • Downloading. useless progress percentage
  • Preparing to install.
  • Installing. more useless progress percentage
  • Please do not turn off your computer.
  • "Hi".
[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget when the update stage actually reads 100%, which makes no logical sense because if the stage was at 100%, you wouldn’t still be telling me we are processing it as the current stage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Somehow Windows struggles with file i/o and always has been. When copying stuff to floppy disks in Win 3 or 95 the progress bar steadily grew to 100% and since floppies were loud, you could hear that the actual copying only started then and you had to wait longer staring at 100% than the progress bar before.

[–] Zron 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You just gave me a nostalgia bomb of copying files on Win98/XP and watching the little files fly from one folder to the other for 5 minutes after the progress bar filled up.

I miss little animations like that, makes me wish there were more fun little things in OS UIs these days. Now everything is just a bar and a number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

watching the little files fly wasn't it pieces of paper?

[–] Zron 1 points 7 months ago

It’s been a minute, man. I haven’t used WinXP since 2009

[–] serpineslair 8 points 7 months ago

Yup that one really pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

meanwhile updates on linux telling me exactly what is happening in real time, working completely in the background, and politely informing me that i may wish to reboot to apply all the updates properly

[–] Boozilla 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Windows: Imma let you finish but first we gotta update my man. Will only take an hour. Maybe three.

Linux: Save the drama for your mamma.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Linux updates are much superior, but Windows updates have not taken more than 5 minutes for me for a long time.

I just hate all the reboots. Linux can update everything, even kernels now, and no downtime. Reminds me of crap home internet routers: "oh you changed the date&time? Then I gotta reboot"

[–] Boozilla 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The routine Windows updates do go pretty quickly, but the "cumulative updates" can still take a very long time in my experience. I have to patch multiple servers and workstations at my job and it sucks. And if you have a hyper-v guest that lies dormant most of the time, but you need to update it once or twice a month, may the gods help you. Takes forever to even CHECK for updates, because Windows freaks the hell out if your PC remains turned off for a period of time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Then,

-Please try Edge