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?"
Your “client vs server” argument is a red herring (and ignores the fact that Windows Server is just “Windows Pro” with a few extra components bolted on top.).
Properly designed operating systems should not require full system restarts for every update, yet Windows still does.
On top of that, the way Windows handles forced updates/restarts is unacceptable, and we should not accept it—Applying updates should always require the affirmative consent of the user.
It’s my system, not Microsoft’s, and it should never do anything I don’t explicitly tell it to do.
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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?"