Then I do not have time for those that try to infiltrate FOSS software with MS spyware.
Of course use Win for your work and elsewhere that is your choice.
fwiw you cannot block Win 10 Windows update you can only temporarily delay the update.
Also you cannot block the ports MS uses for Win update. MS prevented that particular port being blocked in Win7.
And yes PUREOS is totally built on ZEALOUS IDEALS. So Librem 5 is not for you.
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Then please explain how I haven’t installed a Windows update in over 16 months, and explain how MS is able to bypass proxy and firewall conditions I’ve set on home enterprise network?
I think it is best to not assume someone does not know what they are talking about here. I have years of evidence refuting the things you are saying.
But I will not continue this. This thread is solved and the issued moved on.
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2disbetter is right at this point. You can block updates. Just not via common options. The only issue: after ~1,5 years you don’t get security updates anymore.
Ah, if only there was a Microsoft Update Catalog that had all the Microsoft updates that could be downloaded independently of the windows updater and if only in that catalog you could download only the security updates and apply them on your own schedule… if only…
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There is wumgr. It lets you do just that.
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Yeah, I guess the ellipsis didn’t convey quite what I was going for. The point was that there are ways to still get updates, including old updates if you didn’t get them through automatic updates on the preferred by Microsoft schedule.
WSUS, pretty much every MDM solution, manually via the update catalog, any number of open source tools like the one you referenced, just to name a few of the options.
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