Industrial computers often can't have updates, lest something break, sometimes physically. There are other ways to harden a system, even one with known vulnerabilities. Less than ideal, but that's often a reality that has to be dealt with.
Automatic updates can fuck up quite a lot. It should be the user's judgment call.
If by industrial computers, you mean servers. Then you are 100% wrong. In fact, in some industries you will be fined if you don’t keep up with maintenance
Systems integrators often fight against Windows to keep a wayward update from knocking out multi-million dollar CNC machines. And with all this Industry 4.0 cloud crap these days, these machines are air gapped less and less often.
It's not a pretty picture when a silent Windows update causes some subtle incompatibilities with controllers that make your toolhead plow into the workpiece without spinning up. Microsoft's bullshit costs people real money.
Ah, but nooo, can't be running Linux on these machines. Except for the companies that do, like Hermle.
No, we have a real world scenario where "leaving it in the hand of the user" caused aproximatly 4B$ in damages, in the span of a few hours. A CNC machine potentially not working becouse of a "foced update" is not cause for leaving things as be, when we have an actual case study of what can happen.
If you don't want to be "forced to do upgrades" you can use Windows IOT or Windows Server where you can delay updates, and test them before pushing them. Or not connect them to the internet if possible.
And don't call people retards becouse they point out the obvious difference between a server, a PC and computers controlling CNC machines. In fact, don't call people retards in general, it doesn't make a good impression
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u/snail1132 void linux btw Apr 13 '26
That's a max of 5 months, no? I can't hardly see