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You really should be doing regular updates.
Disabling updates is dangerous and not recommended for a reason.
Back in normal times this was common sense but you've really gotta understand that microsoft is just shipping malware for its own systems lately. This vibe coded garbage is pretty debatably worth it, they obviously see their userbase as stand in QA testers
I'll be the first one to say that I've left Windows in the dust for Linux almost 10 years ago. After losing 24-48 hours worth of work **twice** due to automatic updates (on a Windows 7 machine, running data recovery against a deleted partition on an external hard drive. When they took away the ability to have windows download updates but let me choose when to reboot), I swapped to Linux fulltime and have never looked back.
While Microsoft isn't exactly setting records for user privacy, the answer to "Microsoft is installing things that track what I do for corporate interests" will never be "stop installing updates". Microsoft is at least an entity you can hold legally responsible for damaging you. Refusing to install updates will only make that problem worse, not better.
I get that the Microsoft Hate bandwagon is a fun ride, but suggesting that users disable updates is bad advice, full stop.
Look, Microsoft left windows 10 to rot. The only update they're shipping is the nag screen for Windows 11. When you get the update, it hogs all your ressources to download the entirety of Windows 11 and keep it in ram, only to show a blue screen that says "Your pc can't run Windows 11".
Click OK/cancel/whatever, doesn't matter, because nothing happens. Then it repeats the whole downloading update procedure from the beginning next time you reboot.
If for some reason you need Windows on a less than brand new machine, then your only option is to disable updates or else it just won't work.
Like it or not, Microsoft can do what they want with their operating system.
If you want that to not be the case, swap to Linux.
I'm not trying to defend Microsoft, I'm calling a spade a spade.
This is no different than back when Windows XP was pushed to End of Life, except maybe they're more nagging about trying to get you on a secure platform vs letting you continue to use an unsecured one. Microsoft will not support every Windows version forever, there will always come a time where the 'good' Windows version is no longer supported.
Running an internet-connected computer and turning off updates is bad advice. Doesn't matter if it's desktop, laptop, server, cellphone, etc. You should install updates.
Deferring updates until you can make sure there will be no adverse consequences is good advice, but that isn't what people are recommending here.
I think it's different from XP in that they made an already paid product entirely unusable.
On XP I could at least continue using it many years past the EOL, offline, or online at my own risk. The EOL of Windows 10 removes my option to use the software that I paid for and also the hardware that I paid for, for the purposes that I bought it for in the first place. I paid for the license and I paid for the hardware. It's fine if they stop supporting it, but there's no reason for making it unusable for backward compatibility.
They're basically forcing people to repurpose their almost new hardware, sold until recently as "Windows machines", for Linux.