food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:18:17PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Dunno. I haven't really used Apple devices much in a good while (not a
> fan for various reasons), but based on what I have seen, Windows
> Update is faaar worse as of...around Win7? XP? I forget...and has only
> gotten *worse* with Win10. And I'm not talking OS upgrades, just the
> ordinary regular updates.

Two decades after graduating from college, I thought I had finally grown
out of my college years' anti-MS Linux zealotry, only to be rudely
awakened when one day my wife's Windows laptop popped up a notice that
there were important security updates to be installed, and upon clicking
"OK", it suddenly ended up upgrading the *entire lousy OS* to Windows 10
-- with no option of backing out, and which took who knows how many
hours, during which my wife could not get any work done.  I beat a hasty
retreat back to my former stance of not touching Windows with a 10-foot
pole for any non-toy purposes.


> Do Apple devices regularly do force-updates just upon normal
> shutdown/startup and then take as many as 4 or even 8 or so hours to
> complete? 'Cause I've seen that on many people's Windows computers
> many times.

Nothing surprises me anymore, after MS had the audacity to force-feed
Windows 10 down my throat under the guise of a "security update". :-/


T

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