Sorry for this post in advance, but I can’t take it any longer…
Very, very rarely I use Vista for some gaming.
You know, when you didn’t use this “fantastic” system for a while, it needs some updates.
After a half hour updating and -of course- ten times rebooting, I can finally start a game.
That’s not the worst…
Last time it needed an update just for the time zone.
After installing this enormous update, there was this message:
“Update is finished, the system will be rebooted” (counting down from 10 sec.)
WHY??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH… :eek: :eek:
Can you imagine: Suse asking for a reboot after an update for time zone???
Sometimes I just hit ignore and play games on there. Especially if I don’t need to go online I could just cut the net connection and who cares if there are security flaws to XP that are unpatched.
when you go 6 months to a year between boots of Windows it gets so you have a lot of patches and far to many reboots to get it done. Especially if it has been a while since the last service pack
That’s true, XP is the less worst Windows vesion. :rolleyes:
I have XP on an other computer, Vista I use indeed for the DirectX - games.
But I’ve had already several moments that I was so tired of Vista, that I rebooted the computer and started Suse, opened Yast → partitioning; marked the vista-part for formatting → apply → and then you get the red warning message with “are you sure?”
and on the last moment I decided not to do this…
(I think that the feeling that I can wipe out Vista on that moment with one mouse-click, is already satisfying enough… )
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>I dream at the day when i am not forced to boot in windows anymore… I
>totally understand OP.
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I remember those days! I haven’t had any version of Windows at home
since 2000 and even have a job now where the boss refuses to support any Windows boxes. Life just doesn’t get any sweeter than that!
–
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Linux is not a destination, it’s a journey – enjoy the trip!
Linux 2.6.25.9-0.2-pae
10:14pm up 3 days 1:25, 15 users, load average: 0.37, 0.36, 0.36
I learned to turn off those stupid updates the hard way.
After playing my game (Empire Earth, and no it doesn’t work under wine/cedega unfortunately), I went to shutdown Vista.
It refused to shutdown, and insisted that it download “important updates”.
So I left it running overnight as I was tired and wanted to go to sleep.
It finished (I assume!), and shut itself down.
The next time I came to play my game, Vista wouldn’t start, it was complaining about a missing win.com!!!
I had to backup 80 gigs of Linux stuff before using the restore disk just in case (which I fully expected it to do!!) it wiped the entire disk in order to restore vista.
After that fiasco automatic updates were turned off permanently.
I mean, it’s not like I really need or care about “security” updates as I only use it for playing that one game, and I never use it on the internet.
update, there was this message: