Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 2/6/2019 6:25 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Obviously it's a highly controversial upgrade, maybe it's best to not
ever upgrade to it, but Microsoft is already talking about the 1904
upgrade. I haven't been offered this upgrade yet. Microsoft usually
doesn't allow an upgrade between two non-adjacent versions. Just
concerned that I may get stuck on 1803 forever, or I'm going to be
offered the 1809 just weeks before 1904 is offered to me, and I'd have
to go through two major upgrades soon after each other.

Another update, Microsoft just all of a sudden made 1809 available to me
through the normal update procedures, and it installed it without any
problems (much to my surprise)! I don't know why when it did it through
the Update process it worked, but didn't work when I tried it through
manual update process?

The Windows Update version "stages" drivers in advance,
if they're missing.

The DVD one doesn't. It backfills later with driver downloads
if it feels the need. For example, the installation might want to
upgrade the video card driver, to the latest flavor of WDDM.

If you have an unsupported video card, you might want to try the DVD.

The approach of the two is "mostly similar", but there are some
tiny differences. The Windows Update one looks at the versions
of stuff, and "downloads a thousand tiny packages". And that
adds up to 4GB of stuff. Whereas the DVD packs what it thinks
you need, into the ISO. Would the software lineups be identical ?
Who really knows. You would hope both would install 17763.1,
and the WU one should not be "racing ahead" when it does
the OS Upgrade. To get to .500 or whatever, should be another
500MB download.

Paul