In my working days even before Win10 we had a team of 5 or so specialists that spent weeks going over updates before they were deployed. Yep well before Win10 there were updates being sent out second Tuesday or Wednesday (in Australia) every month. Rarely did we have issues.

These days I just let Win10 do it’s thing so far I’ve been very lucky. But most of the machines that people ask me to look at have either been modified, infected, or neglected maybe tweaked by some “expert”. That is not to say my devices won’t break but I feel there is little choice.

I rarely if ever update both my Win10 devices in the same week. I have my desktop that gets all. Then usually a week or so later (when I’m getting ready to play somewhere) I update the machine I use on stage. I also at that time transfer any songs I’ve changed in the month and put the gig together.

And don’t kid yourself that a Linux box is indestructible. In my good old days I would have to help folks with various Linux and Unix flavours. But I’m past all that now and I sleep better (talk to myself a bit but sleep better I think).

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