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You've never had Windows insist on installing updates at an inconvenient time? Come on! You're obviously not using Windows that much.
Also, it's not just Windows that does this. Every HP thing (the PC, their printers, accessories, etc) seems to require a bazillion background services and one gigantic background app that just loves to pop up and interrupt everything you're doing at the worst times. Multiply that by any number of other devices with proprietary management daemons running in the background, managing their own updates (because even to this day Windows doesn't have a universal package manager that keeps all software up to date).
This is how it's going to go:
It's the Windows way!
Ypu missed 'the update breaks your machine, and you lose a day reinstalling everything'
(because I bet a gaming machine doesn't use something like snapshots to roll back before the damage).
Wow, you ok there? Like I said, no, that's never happened to me. I've had the PC self-update during off-peak hours i.e. when I was sleeping, but otherwise it's usually an update initiated by me.
The fact you took this time to initiate this flight of fantasy on something that's never happened to me on any Windows portable means your hate of an OS has taken on some unhealthy levels. Take a chill pill.