I love babysitting Windows Update. this is such a productive and worthwhile use of my limited lifespan. it's not at all fucking stupid that you still have to watch Windows Update like a goddamn hawk to make sure it actually Fucking Works. this isn't even a little bit embarrassing.
- Linux/BSD based systems that come with a package manager
- worthless legacy dogshit that should have been phased out 20 years ago
I've had to provision three different machines with Windows 11 today and all three have failed to properly install updates in entirely different and bizarre ways
- One (a Surface tablet) absolutely refused to install new chipset drivers until being rebooted four times, after which it magically worked.
- Another (a Lenovo laptop) for some reason installed the Windows 10 settings panel and is stuck installing a provisional Win11 update from 2021???
- And on another still (an Asus laptop), Windows update just instantly fails to install all updates, throwing random error codes each time.
To be clear; these are all fresh installs of Windows 11. I have done nothing to them but enter Audit Mode and run Windows Update. Absolutely bizarre, absolutely embarassing, absolutely a total fucking waste of my (and no doubt, thousands of other people's) time.
