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To be fair, I wouldn't have a nice day if someone decided to install a significant update/upgrade/fork for an OS on the family machine without prior notice, either...
Nowhere near corporal punishment levels, but most certainly "clean uninstall your programs daily" levels. Would still make a backup of any saved games/projects, I'm not a monster...
TBF windows has a bad habit of installing updates without your expecting it. Iβve had it shut down on me right when Iβm in the middle of something because I probably missed a βweβre gonna update do you want it now/later?β OS popup, and it defaulted to βnowβ.
Fair enough! Truthfully, I think I managed to escape the brunt of this experience with Windows. I always set my network connection to Metered after every install (started doing this since 8), which prohibits Update from doing its thing.
But given Anon knew what Win 10 is and the father obviously did not, my guess is that the father clicked on the 'upgrade now!' panel Microsoft used to pester Win 7 and Win 8 users with.
IIRC the pop up even did scummy bullshit like continuing with the update if you closed the popup by clicking the cross in the top right of the window, you had to actually click the cancel button.
Aaah, good point, I forgot they started with that spammy shit early on...
Edit: point still stands, don't beat your kids. Unless they're coming at you with murderous intent, or something, I guess...
That shit is what made me start considering Linux more seriously
The post was made in 2020. I think it's likely that this was a PC that already ran Windows 10, which probably auto-updated itself as they love to do
I was mid-gaming with friends over Skype when my Win7 machine just shut itself down, and booted back as Win10. I'm not sure anyone's at fault here. (Well, for the update, anyway)