Mate I love using linux but my mom hardly makes me use my real laptop so Im forced to use windows, I can use a live usb but eh.
@JushBJJ2
Use a virtual machine or a phone/tablet. There's no stopping Windows updating when it wants to. I've seen YouTube streams where the guy's said "I hope the laptop doesn't reboot or lag in the next few hours", and I've been on Skype shared desktop sessions at work when the laptop has rebooted. I don't understand how people can live that way.
Use a virtual machine or a phone/tablet. There's no stopping Windows updating when it wants to. I've seen YouTube streams where the guy's said "I hope the laptop doesn't reboot or lag in the next few hours", and I've been on Skype shared desktop sessions at work when the laptop has rebooted. I don't understand how people can live that way.
How about checking for updates and installing them shortly before starting playing?
@hangrad
The theory - and it is a rather compelling one - is that as the purchaser and owner of the device you're in charge of it and it operates for your convenience, not the other way around. Linux pops up reminders to update, but it never decides that rebooting when you're in a conference call, or live-streaming, or starts to slow your machine down doing a check for updates that you lose blitz games due to the lag. It's just unacceptable, and for one of the last OSes that you're expected to pay money for? Don't make me laugh.
The theory - and it is a rather compelling one - is that as the purchaser and owner of the device you're in charge of it and it operates for your convenience, not the other way around. Linux pops up reminders to update, but it never decides that rebooting when you're in a conference call, or live-streaming, or starts to slow your machine down doing a check for updates that you lose blitz games due to the lag. It's just unacceptable, and for one of the last OSes that you're expected to pay money for? Don't make me laugh.
The last version of Windows I used was Windows 98, because Debian had already surpassed it by that point. Seems like I haven't missed much.
@Doofenshmirtz Windows 10 is free. Windows 7 is very bad and very old. @JushBJJ2 Which version of Windows are you using?
@ddu_du_ddu_du Which OS are you using?
@hangrad Windows 10 is not free.
@Doofenshmirtz the claim that you can't disable automatic updates is straight up wrong. Just go to the Updates settings and change them to "Search updates automatically but manually decide when to download and install" (or however that option is named in English)
Also, how is a VM supposed to help him? If the outer Windows system were to reboot that would shut down the VM too obviously.
On a side note, on Mint I don't recall ever having to reboot after installing updates so that seems to be possible too. But I guess for Windows, the technology just isn't there yet. :P
Also, how is a VM supposed to help him? If the outer Windows system were to reboot that would shut down the VM too obviously.
On a side note, on Mint I don't recall ever having to reboot after installing updates so that seems to be possible too. But I guess for Windows, the technology just isn't there yet. :P
@MoistvonLipwig you can only delay Windows updates, you cannot put them off forever.
The point of a Windows VM is to keep all the risk in one controlled environment and use the linux host to do anything you need to rely on, such as streaming uninterrupted, low latency blitz games etc.
The point of a Windows VM is to keep all the risk in one controlled environment and use the linux host to do anything you need to rely on, such as streaming uninterrupted, low latency blitz games etc.
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