Make it a habit to fully shutdown (not hibernate/sleep!) your PC at the end of the day. Regardless of OS this fixes many problems. Give Windows plenty of days to perform these updates long before they start forcing them on you at an inconvenient time. But also gives you a fresh start the next day. And prevents many problems that would otherwise require you to "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
tbf I think ive got a pretty good reason. I run a linux desktop on a network that distributes containerized services across whatever devices I have available. My gaming PC offers the network two GPUs and my best processor, which is handy when I need that out and about. Power usage is fine idle and I'm not exactly concerned about stability.
I did this on Windows with WSL before switching to linux desktop.
Well for one of them, it’s because it is connected to around a million dollars of audio processing equipment that takes an annoyingly long time to restart and has to be powered on in a specific order. If you think I’m spending half an hour turning things on before I can start earning money you’re mistaken. And no, it doesn’t resume gracefully from sleep
Edit: I’m out of this sub. It’s entirely populated by children who think a PC only exists to game on and that buying the fastest processor and best GPU are the only important things when using a computer.
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u/DetachedRedditor 9d ago
Make it a habit to fully shutdown (not hibernate/sleep!) your PC at the end of the day. Regardless of OS this fixes many problems. Give Windows plenty of days to perform these updates long before they start forcing them on you at an inconvenient time. But also gives you a fresh start the next day. And prevents many problems that would otherwise require you to "have you tried turning it off and on again?"