I hate updates whether they are forced or not. Updates suck. They serve no purpose other than to provide a job for software writers. That is why they are called "security" updates. They provide software writers with job security. I stopped updating around the year 2000. The only time I have updated anything willfully was in 2004 when I had to install Service pack 2 to Win XP so that Wifi would work. Any time I have a new computer or reinstall Windows the first thing I do is shut down every single automatic update I can find.
I keep reading people's opinions that updates are so important, but that is all that that is, an opinion. No one backs up their opinions with any type of fact at all.
In the last 13 years I have saved myself hundreds of boring hours needlessly updating my computer. And there is nothing more boring that updating a computer, besides listening to the "experts" telling me how important it is to update. In the last 13 years, actually going back over 30 plus years I have owned a computer, I have never gotten a virus, any malware nor had my computer compromised. So what am I missing? Not a thing other than spending hundreds of boring hours watching my computer get updated.
The reason why I stopped updating is because too many times I did an update and something was changed in the updated program that I did not like. Those I call downdates. Take my current Chromebook. I have been using it for the last 6 months. It is updated automatically behind the scenes and there is nothing I can do about it. But I knew this before I bought the Chromebook and I figured I could trust Google. Wrong. When I first got this machine I loved the way it was so easy to put to sleep and so easy to wake up. Shut the lid and it sleeps, open the lid and it wakes up and all the tabs were refreshed automatically. Then a month later there was an update. Now when I open the lid the tabs don't refresh automatically. So now I have to sit and watch the stupid icon blink and blink and blink until it finally gets a signal. Then I have to manually refresh every tab. What a stupid idea. And I have no recourse, no way to roll it back. I suppose now my computer is "safer" :
The best thing about the Chromebook is that I no longer use my Windows laptop to access the Internet so there is now absolutely no chance anything will ever get updated on the machine again. It works just fine, I don't need no software writers updating anything.
So maybe someday something bad will happen to a computer of mine because I don't update. Worst case scenario would be completely wiping out Windows. Oh wow, it takes me 2 hours to reinstall Windows and all my applications. I am still hundreds of boring hours ahead. And they can't harm my data. It is backed up way to frequently and in too many places to have my data compromised.
