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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. Computer literacy is at all times low by sinij · · Score: -1, Troll

    How these gamers are not computer-literate enough to turn Win10 crapware off?

    1. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low by LVSlushdat · · Score: 0, Troll

      So basically, if you are still running Windows, for WHATever reason, *your* computer (and its data) now belongs to Microsoft.. I feel a great deal of sympathy for those folks who are still on the MS "treadmill"..... As for myself, I jumped off that about 5 years ago, and couldn't be happier...

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      THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
  2. Re:Irony!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just as much of a problem on Linux with cron jobs going off hourly!!!!!

  3. What the hell is 'Pro Gaming'? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: -1, Troll

    If Gaming 'Professionals' aren't capable and responsible enough to properly firewall away problems like this from the computers they are using as their 'studios' for their broadcasting operations, they aren't really very professional.

    Aside from the whole problem of 'Pro Gaming' in general: what the heck? Why are we allowing Video Gaming to become a spectator sport? Personally I don't care about somebody's spot on a leaderboard. I go into games like World of Warcraft to immerse myself in a virtual world. Once you accept that there are 'winners' in such endeavors, you automatically become a loser.