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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wish you could install only security updates

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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

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 1 year ago (1 children)

Long term service branch exists on 10.

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

Only for Enterprise tho