I never had a problem updating windows 10 till today. I just go the issue resolved - it was throwing kbmode exception on boot up; wouldn't roll back or forward. I was on 1903 and it tried to update something i think 1909 and that really screw things up. Anyway it might work now or might not.
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Yea i had linux update screw up royally but the difference between linux and windows is no freaking registry. I can reinstall linux on the system disk - copy over a few custom config changes to /etc and not have to worry about reinstalling all my gigs of software. On windows screw up that registry or reinstall and your (well i am) stuck with reinstalling gigs of software (mostly steam and gog games). Technically they should run without install but some of them store data in the registry and it is a guessing game what needs what.
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That's not to say i like linux burps - and i won't go into some of the problems i have had with their video drives other than to say ubuntu 18.04 broke sandybridge hd graphics and the ati driver has its own set of issue.
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If it helps i have some friends at ms (i'm sure you do too) and they had rather interesting things to say about the current windows 10 development team. Conversely i found a gazillion posts with my issue unfortunately - the ones responded by microsoft frequently had different solutions - most of them not working. A common solution or frequent comment is just reinstall windows which sadly would be a real nightmare
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Yea i had linux update screw up royally but the difference between linux and windows is no freaking registry. I can reinstall linux on the system disk - copy over a few custom config changes to /etc and not have to worry about reinstalling all my gigs of software. On windows screw up that registry or reinstall and your (well i am) stuck with reinstalling gigs of software (mostly steam and gog games). Technically they should run without install but some of them store data in the registry and it is a guessing game what needs what.
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That's not to say i like linux burps - and i won't go into some of the problems i have had with their video drives other than to say ubuntu 18.04 broke sandybridge hd graphics and the ati driver has its own set of issue.
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If it helps i have some friends at ms (i'm sure you do too) and they had rather interesting things to say about the current windows 10 development team. Conversely i found a gazillion posts with my issue unfortunately - the ones responded by microsoft frequently had different solutions - most of them not working. A common solution or frequent comment is just reinstall windows which sadly would be a real nightmare
And I never, ever had any problems with Windows update, from Windows 7, through 8 and 8.1, to 10. I actually had Linux break many, many times after an update (mostly graphics drivers but also DEs and once X broke). And I'll be the first to tell you that the way Linux does updates is way better than Windows. It's not as apocalyptic as you and other people having problems make it out to be. There were some pretty stupid bugs due to updates last year, but it was fixed. It always gets fixed.