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On 15/12/19 18:47, Philip White wrote:
> The bottom line here is that you don’t make your W10 environment
> better by avoiding updates, you will actually weaken it.
If Windows were designed properly, it wouldn't need monthly updates.
Unix doesn't need monthly updates, neither do my Cisco routers or my
preferred word processor. Why should a system get weaker by staying as
it is? XyWrite is just as powerful today as it was 30 years ago.
What about patching security breaches? If Windows were designed
properly, it wouldn't need security patches every 28 days. My advice
is to keep browsers up-to-date, don't surf to porno web sites
(breeding grounds for malware), don't download suspicious emails, and
you have very little chance of catching a computer virus or
ransomware. Make frequent backups, and if you do catch a bug, you can
roll back to a previous state.
Nothing is more annoying than an update which moves or removes
buttons, or breaks functions which worked fine before. I see no reason
to update any system, unless and until it ceases to perform some
necessary function. My experience of Windows updates has been that
Redmond keeps adding more and more features; but I don't want _more_
features, I want the same ones to _work better_. Take the word
processor, for example ... or the file manager: Total Commander was
all I ever needed: fast, efficient, keyboard-driven, no code bloat,
whereas the Windows Explorer is useless to me (has Redmond finally
added multiple-file rename? an indispensable function Commander had 30
years ago).
One man's opinion.
<MD FL>
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