Microsoft Is Force-Upgrading All Windows 11 24H2 PCs to 25H2, and You Can’t Opt Out

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Like it or not, Windows 11 25H2 is coming to your PC whether you asked for it or not. Microsoft has expanded its rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update to cover every unmanaged Home and Pro device still running version 24H2, with no mechanism to permanently refuse the installation. The company confirmed the change […]

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I'm fine with this. I get tired of home systems not being properly updated and becoming zombies for bot net farms.
 
I agree, even with whatever bugs come along with some of the updates I feel it's still better than becoming vulnerable. I've had some headaches at the office on occasion but still rather deal with them than the alternative.
 
Brian_B said:
I am about this close from dropping in CachyOS and just tinkering around for a while.
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I've been using CachyOS on my secondary desktop PC since last year, and I think it's going to become my new main OS in the future. I've been using Manjaro happily since 2022, but there's some strife going on behind-the-scenes with the Manjaro group, and I question the distro's future. Not to mention that CachyOS is the fastest distro out there, now that Intel's Clear Linux is no longer around.
 
Brian_B said:
I am about this close from dropping in CachyOS and just tinkering around for a while.
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Try the Fedora Live boot ISO. May not be the fastest but looks more polished than CachyOS.

Also, based on my experience, it did something regarding time that none of the other Live boot distros did. Left me impressed. Don't remember exactly what. I think the other distros were having sleep issues on my 245KF/AORUS Z890 combo.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Try the Fedora Live boot ISO. May not be the fastest but looks more polished than CachyOS.

Also, based on my experience, it did something regarding time that none of the other Live boot distros did. Left me impressed. Don't remember exactly what. I think the other distros were having sleep issues on my 245KF/AORUS Z890 combo.
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I’ve got a lot of years with Fedora / Slackware distros. They are certainly well rounded. Mostly just looking for something that runs Stream and some decent hypervisor
so I can virtual sandbox a copy of Windows for work related stuff that needs the 365 suite
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I agree, even with whatever bugs come along with some of the updates I feel it's still better than becoming vulnerable.
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Vulnerability has become the IT equivalent of will you just think of the children!

Every new version has potential new 0-day vulnerabilities than don't affect the tried and tested one. I'd argue that updating to a new major release makes you less secure, not more.

On top of this your chance of being compromised through some esoteric hard to exploit security hole is multiple magnitudes smaller than becoming the victim of a windows "feature" update that bricks your OS (and if you didn't have the foresight to disable bitlocker your entire OS drive)

The best thing would be to use the same update policy for your OS that MB manufacturers recommend for your bios: Don't update unless you have an actual issue that the update potentially fixes.
 
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