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While I have upgraded to Pro and turned off those settings myself, I have not experienced my whole system restarting to do an update. I have had to neuter the TPM modules in my BIOS to prevent Windows 11 from automatically installing though.

However the issue that I've had was my Terminal App shutting down by itself, I thought it was a crash but it turns out it was because the Windows Store decided to update it.

Now that is complete BS! How can a store arbitrarily decide to update an app while it is still running without asking, without waiting? Even Steam waits to download and update games for when you're not playing one. If it ever did the same thing as what the Windows Store does then there'd be a riot for sure. I guess that it means the Windows Store is just not being used by people at all.

For those interested the "fix" for not having Terminal app restart for an update is to download the MSI package, extract it to a directory, and run it from there. That's directly from the Developer's words on Github.



Thank you! I've had wt just disappear on me a few times now and I've been meaning to investigate. It never occurred to me this was by design.




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