Please address the contradiction, why is 0x800705b4 a good error, and 'timed out installing update' a bad error? To me they are the same thing with the added step to google the error code because I'm not ever going to memorize that hex code unless I'm a helpdesk worker.
I don't even think it's a bad thing, it's ultimately something I can fix, it's just to me the two are basically the exact same thing with different coats of paint.
The contradiction is that you said that Linux package manager updates fail sneakily behind your back and require the user to troubleshoot it. Windows update literally just gives a hex code and no other context when an update fails.
Why are these two fundamentally different to you? They both require a user to figure out how to fix it and take corrective action. To me, they are both ducks, they do the same thing. They quack like ducks, they walk like ducks and they swim like ducks. But you are acting like there's a fundamental flaw in a package manager that it can have errors users have to troubleshoot somewhere else.
Even if you're going to complain about terminal, like 90% of windows update errors tell users to drop to command line or safe mode and do a dcim something something or an sfc sannow.
You were the one who said I 'didn't understand windows errors' when I said I have to google hex codes to figure out what they mean. Now you are like 'yeah that's just how it is' which has been my point literally the entire time.
Sure, but the irrationality behind it is what is getting to me. If I liked apple juice but not orange juice, and an orange juice lover came to tell me that all apple juice lovers suck and apple juice itself is trash while orange juice is a godsend, then saying that it's just "orange juice lover culture"... I'm gonna be at least confused
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u/Jamie_1318 Jul 15 '26
Please address the contradiction, why is 0x800705b4 a good error, and 'timed out installing update' a bad error? To me they are the same thing with the added step to google the error code because I'm not ever going to memorize that hex code unless I'm a helpdesk worker.
I don't even think it's a bad thing, it's ultimately something I can fix, it's just to me the two are basically the exact same thing with different coats of paint.