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who the fuck think it's a good idea to push bios update via windows update?, it can't even get video driver update right. Before you flaming me for using microslop windows this is my brother laptop not mine
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It's also happening in Linux through fwupd.
In fairness, you have to specifically run that, so you know you are doing a firmware update and that you should be careful.
It can get run automatically by things like Gnome Software.
Ah. I don't use graphical software managers so have no idea that they did that.
Is mainstream distros shipped it by default? cuz I never heard or have it installed
ubuntu ships it by default iirc. it's pretty mainstream alright.
Fedora also does iirc? I remember seeing "firmware update" on gnome software
It does, but anecdotally it doesn't seem super reliable. Did a full system update without knowing it was a thing and only found out when it went into BIOS and immediately said "update failed". Luckily seemed like just a checksum or some other sanity check failing, but I'm guessing I got the wrong binary for my hardware.
Damn
Yeah I get bios updates through fedora on my framework