{"id":694,"date":"2015-11-14T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=694"},"modified":"2015-11-14T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:49:08","slug":"updated-windows-10-november-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Updated Windows 10 &#8211; November Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished updating Windows 10 to the major November update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OSversion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OSversion-300x131.png\" alt=\"OSversion\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OSversion-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OSversion.png 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The process was <em>long<\/em>. <em>Very<\/em> long.<\/p>\n<p>Some takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be ready to have the computer downloading overnight.<\/li>\n<li>Have a good, stable Internet connection (and no overages or else you&#8217;ll be in for a world of hurt)<\/li>\n<li>Be <em>patient.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Expect several reboots.<\/li>\n<li>The update, despite its massive scope, did not seem to affect my Linux partition. Good!<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft <em>seriously<\/em> needs to make their downloads resumable or schedulable or both. It&#8217;s no good to patiently download 35% of a multi-gigabyte file only to get back to zero after some network glitch.<\/li>\n<li>The inability to stop updates in Windows stinks like a rotten skunk. I couldn&#8217;t boot into Windows for a long time because all the network connectivity I had during that time was a metered-by-the-kilobyte 3G modem. No way I would risk running an expensive bill or eating all my megabytes (you read that right) available for the month. Get serious, Windows folks! <\/li>\n<li>Overall, everything looks good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this from Edge, the new Microsoft browser that got an update in this new release. It feels good and fast, but definitely needs an ad blocker.<\/p>\n<p>For a detailed rundown of changes in this major update you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/232176\/whats-new-in-windows-10s-first-big-update-the-windows-10-fall-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> at Howtogeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished updating Windows 10 to the major November update: The process was long. Very long. Some takeaways: Be ready to have the computer downloading overnight. Have a good, stable Internet connection (and no overages or else you&#8217;ll be in for a world of hurt) Be patient. Expect several reboots. The update, despite its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}