alt Hacker NewsThis is so extremely annoying when paired with the forced auto restarts. Here is how it works:
1. I walk away from the computer with a bunch of my tabs and programs running. I also have a couple of servers running (docker compose).
2. Microsoft decides my work is worthless and restarts the PC to install updates to fix their own shoddy programming.
3. After 3-4 restarts, it finally drops back into the login screen. So my open apps, tabs, servers are all gone, and will not be running. Basically means I cannot rely on the PC being online if I am outside.
4. And on top of that, even when I enter the password, it will pretend to login, but stops on this spam screen with the anti-pattern "remind me later" button. Every single time. I've told them no for at least 50 times. Oh and this screen blocks every startup program from loading, even though I have signed in. So I have to clear it before docker will load.
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If you disable it as outlined in the article it will not come back IME. It is ridiculous and frustrating that you have to do it, and IMO it's extremely poorly named and placed but it does work at least.
I always disable automatic updates as a group policy and re-enable them when I'm ready to install them for this very reason.
Don't Windows Services run behind the login window (when configured to do so)?
Could you set up Docker that way?
Windows 11 is for video games and Excel, not running docker compose and servers. Windows Server is for running servers.
Docker runs better on Linux. And Linux doesn't reboot unless told to do so. And you can SSH into it rather than run some sort of long winded GUI. Oh, and it doesn't phone home all the time with 'telemetry'.