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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

wish you could install only security updates

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can delay all other updates with the group policy editor. You can disable preview builds and you and delay quality updates by 30 days and delay feature updates by 365 days. The bugs are always worked out by then.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OR they could stop shipping broken updates for their $100 ad-infested operating system. Just a a thought.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

My tinfoil hat theory is that they ship broken updates on purpose to feign how fast and hard they work on fixing them. See, customers, we really care!

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thats good but Im also worried about the useless changes that they make... so after 365 days I would start getting constant useless updates anyways

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Feature updates are necessary after a while. There's SOME important stuff in there. And if you wait a whole year before installing the new one, all the bugs will be fixed by then

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Long term service branch exists on 10.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Only for Enterprise tho