alt Hacker News> You had unsaved work? Too bad, it's gone, get bent.
This has happened to me a couple of times. I put the PC to sleep and the next morning I discover it has decided to close everything to install an update.
Not using Windows ever again to do any work. Say what you will about Apple but at least they don't do crap like this.
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I aspire to have your level of confidence in anything that amounts to leaving unsaved work in any sort of shape or form.
I installed Windows Update Blocker (AKA "WUB") and i've stopped the nonsense shutdowns late at night.
That helped stopping the aggravation, but lets see how long I last. I do feel my next computer will be a Linux OS ... but i'm not a programmer and I wince at having to do all the wine installs fresh...
The fact that you leave unsaved work overnight is the actual crazy part.
Happens to me way too often. And it is frustrating if backup auto save is not included in the system. I have disabled auto update because of this.
Happened to me just a few days ago. Woke up, turned on PC, all my open programs were gone due to a Windows Update...
Not just a couple of times. It happened to me countless times.
Correct. Windows is not a serious operating system. It really never has been. I've been on desktop linux for decades now. Linux is a serious operating system. Nothing happens without you asking it too. My linux computers are never turned off, since they day I turn them on, except for the occasional kernel upgrade. Otherwise, all upgrades are live. Even most kernel upgrades can be avoided if you use one of the modern patch frameworks
Meanwhile on macOS, modern apps will not lose data if the power is janked out at any point.
the flip side of this is I can't count the number of times that cropping a screenshot in paint and leaving it in the background has partially stopped my PC from rebooting, and I've discovered the following morning that "you have unsaved work" on paint interrupted the shutdown and i need to do the shutdown _again_.