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If you don’t use it, how have you seen “shady behavior” or been able to definitively assert that they “do nothing significant”?


I used it briefly in the past 1 year.


So you have like three molecules of experience and you are generalizing?? I am on win 10 n do every single update except upgrading to 11 and I m pretty satisfied


With all due respect, that’s not enough time to be saying anything about it and especially not enough to be telling people not to install updates when that’s the most common way people have their computers breached.

I don’t own a Windows device (and haven’t since Win98) and have had dislikes about it since the early 90s, but I’ve also supported it professionally and would never recommend someone avoid updates. Buy a Mac, perhaps, but until you’re ready to switch you should stay current.


I've used it for work reasons as well, I am not saying it sucks, it's just the troubles I had with updates. They seemed to do nothing in my case. I have always been on Linux desktop since 2015 and now on a Mac. I am not a fan of OSX, I just use mac for the awesome hardware it has.




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