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@Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire quite a few people seem to speak highly of Gentoo, perhaps i should try it again sometime..

back to windows - forced updates can be pretty easily disabled by downloading any random “Windows Debloater” software package and running it. After that, it’s not a bother anymore. I don’t remember getting forced updates (or at least any disruptive ones) on my own windows machines even without that, even though i’ve observed some windows computers do this in front of me. Could be because i’m using the Pro edition and others aren’t (why?), could be that the pirates i’m downloading windows ISOs from clean it up, seems unlikely to be just pure luck i think.

Bugs are present in all complex software, and i wouldn’t dismiss one for this if it doesn’t get too disruptive. On my GNU/Linux systems i keep having my keyboard layout settings reset to only English for no discernible reason. This is very annoying when i need to type Russian but easy enough to “work around” with a script i invoke whenever this happens. I think Windows isn’t any worse in this regard.