@kimapr @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire >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.
Until eventually updates are enabled again via the backdoor and you need to download a new script and run that again and hope it doesn't contain proprietary malware.

>could be that the pirates i’m downloading windows ISOs from clean it up, seems unlikely to be just pure luck i think.
Prohibited copies tend to have patches made to such, but usually such patch developers add more proprietary malware in.

>Could be because i’m using the Pro edition and others aren’t
I guess the "Pro" and "LTSC" editions get less broken updates pushed (the "home" versions get to do the testing first).

>On my GNU/Linux systems i keep having my keyboard layout settings reset to only English for no discernible reason.
>but easy enough to “work around” with a script i invoke whenever this happens. I think Windows isn’t any worse in this regard.
windows does almost everything possible to make such workarounds difficult.