On my personal laptop, I run Windows 11 in a virtual machine. Sometimes I intentionally choose "Shut down" instead of "Update and shut down" because I just want to turn it off ASAP and pack up, and it cracks me up when it proceeds to install updates anyway. I just close the virtual machine, powering it off instantly, and later I can restore from a snapshot from before my brutality and let the update happen properly.
I don't find it funny when it's bare metal! On my work laptop I put Windows to sleep 100% of the time, and restart for updates when I'm forced to with 3 hours notice before a mandatory reboot.
This battle with Windows doesn't even need to be happening! I am very good with updates and go looking for them in the settings without needing them to be pushed, at least on less hostile OSs! I run beta iOS on my old phone, and get a little disappointed when I see no changes required when running an update through apt or nix-env or whatever.
I highly recommend running virtualised Windows somewhere for the sanity preserving feeling of vengeful control :)
I don't find it funny when it's bare metal! On my work laptop I put Windows to sleep 100% of the time, and restart for updates when I'm forced to with 3 hours notice before a mandatory reboot.
This battle with Windows doesn't even need to be happening! I am very good with updates and go looking for them in the settings without needing them to be pushed, at least on less hostile OSs! I run beta iOS on my old phone, and get a little disappointed when I see no changes required when running an update through apt or nix-env or whatever.
I highly recommend running virtualised Windows somewhere for the sanity preserving feeling of vengeful control :)