Does anyone know why Windows Update has been such a shitshow in the last years? Yes, they have Windows on billions of devices and that is complicated. But they’ve done stuff that never should happen anywhere.
“AI”
I blame vibe-coding. Windows has always been Windows, but I agree it’s been extra shit lately.
It has to be. I only use Windows on my work device these days, but the ways it breaks are so odd that it has to be AI
They also did a pretty aggressive clearing of house in the earlier 2020s (something like 2022?) of senior employees and their RTO has also cleared some senior people.
The process knowledge that these people have is irreplaceable.
Good point, it also sounds like a recipe for disaster.
If you are wondering what exactly is causing the freezes and hangs, the culprit is the “Secure-Boot-Update scheduled task”. As the name suggests, this runs a scheduled Secure Boot update whenever you are online or connected to the internet. That is why many affected users initially thought the issue was related to the internet as they noticed the bug won’t show up when they were offline.
And a buggy implementation means it might run too often, or continuously.
Where’s the love for
nix flake update?Where’s the love for
apk -U upgrade?
Cool feature in summer.
The actual article says it doesn’t freeze your computer it just cools it down a few degrees.
