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Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on from the automatic-windows-10-update dept.

An anonymous reader cites a report on The Guardian: Perhaps there's nothing more annoying than going in for the kill to suddenly be "pooped on" by a Windows 10 automatic installation taking out your computer mid-stream to your 130,000 or so followers. After deciding to advertise during the weather by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast, Windows 10 is starting to wreak havoc with gamers. Ex-professional Counter Strike player turned full-time streamer Erik Flom was rudely interrupted mid-game and live on Twitch by Windows 10 automatically installing on his PC. "What. What!? How did this happen! Fuck you Windows 10!" Flom said. "Oh my God! You had one job PC. We turned off everything. Update faster you fuck!"

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  1. oh crap by ambisinistral · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would post an answer, but my Windows is updating

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    deserve's got nothing to do with it...

    1. Re:oh crap by rdelsambuco · · Score: 5, Funny

      I replied to you using my raised middle finger.

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    2. Re:oh crap by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must be using Linux then.

  2. most powerful windows yet - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's Windows 10, great new OS with improved abilities, able to annoy users even before it is installed.

  3. windows has the time sense of a three-year old by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hello, user. Windows here. Listen, I really need to shut down to update myself. Would you like me to do that immediately? Or would you like to be reminded again in four hours?"

    "Remind me again in four hours."

    "Gotcha, see you in four hours."

    [Ten minutes later.]

    "Hello, user. Windows here. Listen, I really need to shut down to update myself. Would you like me to do that immediately? Or would you like to be reminded again in four hours?"

  4. User's fault. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unlike Linux, where its elitist pricks tell users to RTFM, us Windows users are superior. We just blame the user for being a fucking retard and not selecting the clearly defined "Don't update to Windows 10" option that's not there, and when they manage to hack the registry to disable the update, Microsoft just reverts the setting anyway!

    Windows > Linux

  5. One Yorkshireman by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 4, Funny

    You were lucky t'have 640K. Real gamers used t'have t'wait for games t'load off scratchy cassette recordings which often had to be rewound multiple times and even then most of the 32K of memory was tak'n up by the display so parts of the 8-bit OS were overwritten for the game to run.

    But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

    [Cue ZX81 owner...]

  6. Re: Irony!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows does a terrible job supporting Linux games. Linux runs Linux games perfectly. This is a software problem.

  7. still recompiling by DrYak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope, he's the BSD user, *I* am the Linux user.
    But I couldn't show up earlier: I was busy recompiling my kernel, sorry for being late.

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  8. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low by nukenerd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously this means trusting some guy on the internet more than Microsoft

    No problem then.