A friend who did a lot of presentations said: always have backups for everything.

• spare laptop
• duplicates of all kinds of connectors & cables
• projector and external speakers (if all in-person audience)
• know of any other available rooms nearby
• copies of presentation on USB and online
• etc.

I went on a business trip with him once, and we all carried 2 bags each of equipment. Last I heard, he ended up working for a large entertainment company in LA.

Windows takes ultimate authority on too many questions without asking or informing users about that. It is wrong by default and leads to a lot of predictable problems and UX drgradation. To the point Microsoft managed to make people be anxious about updates, wanting to stop them.

Why not cover yourself with printed out Win11 logos and blame it on Windows Update?

Yeah, rule of thumb: you need your Windows PC to be available 100% at a close future point? update it now, reboot, and then disable networking if possible.

A lot of people very recently are already jumping ship from Linux so it appears a new most valuable growth opportunity has arrived.

I use Linux, so I don't have this problem 😎

then why did you start the upgrade proccess?

In 15 minutes? WOW!

This is why anything I need to do serious work on does not get Windows installed on it. Even OSX doesn’t pull this.

Windows often decides it wants to do it at boot; you have no choice. Of course Murphy's Law states this will happen at the worst time possible.

I showcase PDFs, there's less compatibility issues and more ways to open it. Animations are out of fashion anyways.

Lol I just got home. The update (25h2) finished 55 minutes after I posted this. Which obviously coincided with the moment I finished my presentation.
I used my boss's laptop to connect to the beamer & give the presentation.

Windows isn't ready for the desktop.

You could probably boot a live USB and transfer your presentation to it in that time.

Also pause updates, it doesn't stop all updates but it does avoid most of the forced reboot Micro$lop dishes out for weeks at a time. Disabling networking is ideal, no doubt, including the telemetry spam.

Last night I specifically hit the "shut down" WITHOUT installing updates, and it just did it anyways. It does what it wants. This was W10 btw .

Didn't he jump on the AI bandwagon?

You can install Linux in 5

remember because my Linux machines take at most 5 minutes to update

I keep kicking myself because I'm using fedora Kinoite on my slowest machine.
It's going to get arch eventually, but for now it's just annoying whenever I go to use it for a few minutes until it finishes the update.

How shit is your computer if it won't be done in 5 minutes?

Me with my media library laptop on 58 days of uptime, chugging along like nothing is wrong

Good thing it does it when you aren't active! Windows #1!

And update while using it and restart at your own convenience.

The amount of people complaining about update scheduling is statistically insignificant in the real world. Lemmy and other tech communities are an echo chamber.

100%. Simple. Straightforward. Bold. Going to look exactly as you intended.

Sometimes it’s simply about being taken seriously.

I’m a very busy person without a lot of time to play video games. If I sit down to play (and on Linux!), I’m absolutely not willing to spend extra time waiting on OS updates. It’s great that I can configure my system to respect my time and never interrupt me if that’s what I wish on a device solely used for electronic card games.

It does exactly what I tell it to do, and that’s great.

Time to give a speach about how Windows is not as reliable as it used to be SeemsGood

You shouldnt put a window on your desk top. A penguin would fit nicely, though...

There's nothing "random" about it.

Microsoft releases their updates (except really time critical security updates) during Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month.

You can delay restarting after updates do the initial install, which it does in the background after downloading by default, for 7 days before it starts pushing you. The restart is needed when files that are currently in use need updating, not all updates require that.

At any point you can also schedule an update time for it to finish the install. And you can set active hours for it to not update during times when you usually use your system.

If you continue to ignore finishing the update process, it will eventually consider it critical (after like a month of delayed updates) and will force an update on its own because you've been delaying it for so long, you are not attempting to schedule it, and you are not telling the system to pause updates. So you're literally ignoring every option given to you to manage updates.

Your system "randomly" updating means you are not utilizing the options to schedule and plan times the system can regularly update, AND are not keeping your system anywhere near up to date manually.

"YOUR COMPUTER FAILED TO START AFTER A RECENT UPDATE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPLORE RECOVERY OPTIONS?"

Are you still running Windows 7 or something? Because my experience with Windows 11 and updates is exactly the same. Windows 11 basically does whatever the fuck it wants and any settings or preferences around updates is frequently ignored.

Just show that in your presentation and make them all wait for however long it takes.

Don't leave security updates hanging for over a week then. That's when the system starts trying to actively fix your inability to utilize ANY of the update delay and scheduling options included in the OS.

Microsoft and many other companies release updates literally the second Tuesday of each month. The update cycle is so common and decades old that there is literally a name for it, Patch Tuesday.

Windows isn't ready for daily driving imo, it's risky to use such an unstable OS for high importance tasks.

It's fine if you want to tinker and experiment with a different OS, but for day to day usage I think you should really be using something more stable.

It's because this thread is filled with Linux bros. Windows scheduling updates at night and gives you weeks to prepare. It's even funnier seeing people say osx doesn't do this...it absolutely does. It will run an update if you wait to long and it takes just as long usually. Linux sure won't do this, but the majority of people have no clue how to use Linux and it's unfortunately not part of the corporate world in mass, and probably never will for workstations because of it's steeper learning curve.

Yes, I do want to explore Linux.

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You have to ignore the updates for a while before it will force reboot during your normal working hours.

If it’s left alone overnight yeah it might reboot on you the day the patch came out. But if your active hours are set to something same it’s never rebooted on me.

If it doesn’t give you the option then you’ve been ignoring the button for a while.

Bold of you to think anyone will be listening after the first slide.

Sorry you were at least half an hour late to your presentation.

Even if she used and prepared her presentation the day before, xp could still have done that. It’s bonkers that you can’t decide when updates happen.

Nice

I disagree

IDK why anyone has automatic updates enabled, precisely because of this ocurring at frustrating times. Can this not be disabeled anymore or something?

…this has to be a BSD guy talking.

I’ve found fedoras updates are getting kind of windowsy

not in windows.

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