How practical is keeping your editing machine Offline?

CarpentersMate wrote on 5/17/2025, 5:12 PM

Hi Gang

I did quite a bit of editing on older Mac Desktops (and) PC's 20 years ago. Not everyone will agree here, but I found (as long as the applications were all up to date), the main editing machine, (offline), never became vulnerable to slow down's, glitches and just over all lag of performance. It 'appeared' much of the slower performance may have been due to the endless Operating System updates and security updates. When possible, I developed a method of downloading the updates or patches to another online machine, then installing them to the main editing machine. Some will say this can no longer be accomplished (not practible), because most of the system updates REQUIRE the system be online at the time. And I'm sure there's other reasons as well. Any other opinions regarding this? You can see my specs in my profile.

Thank you for your opinions ...

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SP. wrote on 5/17/2025, 6:40 PM

@CarpentersMate Yeah, Microsoft knows this and that's why there are special versions of Windows, where all the stuff is removed or disabled (Enterprise LTSC-versions) so the system never changes without your intent.

Generally, don't install new drivers or Windows updates on day one. Wait until the bugs are ironed out. This can take a quarter or even half a year. Then it's usually no problem even with online connections in the background.