202
Windows 11 Patch Tuesday boot failure warning
(www.windowscentral.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
202 points (99.5% liked)
PC Gaming
13309 readers
640 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
For anyone reading this, this is terrible advice. The most important that you can do to keep your windows (if you insist on windows) computer secure is to keep it up to date.
This applies for any operating system. Security flaws are constantly being discovered and the security updates are those flaws being fixed.
It’s an older study but the thing security experts said was most important was installing security updates in a prompt manner.
The thing non experts said was important was having an antivirus.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/security-experts-vs-non-experts,29665.html
All well and good, but every now and then we're abused by updates that remove features, or add something we didn't want.
0patch does have an advantage there I guess.
That’s where choosing a community driven operating system comes in. If the provider of the security patches abuses their position the answer is not to drop security. Rather switching providers is the solution.
I agree. I'm on Debian. But on my Android phone I don't auto update apps. Been bitten too many times.