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Steam Deck got so much right, straight out of the gate. The suspend-resume is nothing short of amazing. The UI is 100% muscle, 0% fat.
IMO, starting with Windows as a base is an automatic setback. There's a strong chance that it'll interrupt your game to ask you if you want to set Edge to be your default browser or some stupid shit.
Ugh I can imagine that thing rebooting for an update the second you pause a game to go do something
I get this place is very pro-Linux, but come on. 30+ years of using Windows here, it's never done anything like that.
It was a bit tongue in cheek but since Win10, there's more "nervous laughter" in the room than there was before.
You've never had Windows insist on installing updates at an inconvenient time? Come on! You're obviously not using Windows that much.
Also, it's not just Windows that does this. Every HP thing (the PC, their printers, accessories, etc) seems to require a bazillion background services and one gigantic background app that just loves to pop up and interrupt everything you're doing at the worst times. Multiply that by any number of other devices with proprietary management daemons running in the background, managing their own updates (because even to this day Windows doesn't have a universal package manager that keeps all software up to date).
This is how it's going to go:
It's the Windows way!
Ypu missed 'the update breaks your machine, and you lose a day reinstalling everything'
(because I bet a gaming machine doesn't use something like snapshots to roll back before the damage).
Wow, you ok there? Like I said, no, that's never happened to me. I've had the PC self-update during off-peak hours i.e. when I was sleeping, but otherwise it's usually an update initiated by me.
The fact you took this time to initiate this flight of fantasy on something that's never happened to me on any Windows portable means your hate of an OS has taken on some unhealthy levels. Take a chill pill.
Windows continuously harasses me to upgrade to windows 11 with full screen nags (having to find the little "go away" button, why there's not a single "no fuck off forever" button isn't shown is beyond me)
I can definitely understand the frustration at windows given how it chooses to act sometimes
Disable TPM in your BIOS. Windows 11 will suddenly be “unsupported” and won’t pester you to upgrade.