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Also thank fuck I'm not in my company's IT department. Like really? Busy with engineering parameters and getting parts drawn up and ready for procurement? How about a little Windows update? Its just going to take a few Microsoft minutes.... 2seconds to be exact, 3 hrs actually, 25 days, 23 seconds, 7:15! , 4 years exactly, 19hrs, 256368468 microseconds!....were almost there! You're not on your first ow two planned work from home days are you? Admim password please! Oh hey, don't shut down the computer!
Hey, you're all up to date! Your computer is missing items that are really important! Like Linux for example.
Updates on Linux are painless, I install them and keep working, and even when it's done, I save and reboot, then back to work. I can even check what services were impacted and restart those instead of rebooting.
I don't underhand why Windows and macOS overcomplicate things. I run a rolling release distribution (Tumbleweed) and things have been smooth for years. But even release based distributions are way simpler to upgrade than either Windows or macOS.
I'm dealing with a fair bit of this because my predecessor had the brilliant idea to put windows 11 on unsupported hardware (which I'm actively working on getting replaced). Every time I think I've found the last stupid thing they did, I find more janky shit like that.
Gotta pay the Microsoft tax.
Skill issue tbh, just rotate your screen a quarter and watch gravity do it's work. Trust me, I have a doctorate in troll physics
I tried. It got worse because there was a crack in the plastic. Now I got Windows on my desk and it's spilling on the floor. Scotch tape won't hold much longer!
A well-seasoned IT department with reasonable funding blocks updates and schedules them.
Yeah, our IT is two guys.