@mischievoustomato@niko@pesekcuy GLib will find a way to do it anyway. (this is guix, but still) same thing happened with firefox, libreoffice, xdg_desktop_portal, etc etc etc all at once
@prettygood nope, seems interesting though. doesn't look like it can do bus routes (which is my primary mode of transport), but iirc where i live not even Google Maps can so i can't expect a random open source app to do that.
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.
@Suiseiseki@RustyCrab@sneeden@SuperDicq@skylar@sapphire I have used both GNU/Linux(incl -libre) and Windows and I assure you that GNU/Linux shit breaks all the time too, and some distros like Arch and its derivatives (yes Parabola isn't any better) effectively have forced updates because you can't install shit from the package manager anymore if your system isn't up-to-date enough. On Windows forced updates somehow were never a thing for me (and i don't think i remember many breakages either), but maybe I was just using it differently than others.