Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is silently eating up to 500GB of your storage, fix coming July 14, 2026.
  • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
    151·
    22時間前

    I don’t get how every windows update they brick a percentage of their user base, and people still haven’t considered switching to Linux, or at the very least a mac. This happens every year, sometimes twice a year.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      20時間前

      Well, if you’re looking for an actual answer… I couldn’t get audio working on Linux on my laptop. I had to switch back in order to watch movies.

      • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        20時間前

        Was more speaking in hyperbole. I can understand why when someone tells me their personal story. I could tell you is probably a driver issue, or I’d you meant Bluetooth sometimes mediatek chips don’t play well with Linux. But I’m sure part of the reason you don’t want to switch because you don’t want someone like me droning over something you don’t fully understand yet or really care about. You just want to watch your movie and I’m with you on that. Just having gone through learning linux it feels much easier to fix a Bluetooth issue than it is to deal with your computer potentially getting bricked once a year.

        • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          18時間前

          Heh, it’s probably on me. I was just test driving it. I have no doubt I could have figured it out if I had spent more time.

          It was just the HDMI audio from a standard Intel 14th gen processor. Didn’t feel it was anything too out of the ordinary, but have tried about 6 releases over 3 distros and not a one has worked.

          • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            18時間前

            Nah theres a lot of debugging you gotta do sometimes, wouldnt say its you. I have a little beelink that has issues that none of my other PCs have and it’s just not important enough for me to care to address. Just how it is and no shame in it.

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    1日前

    15-20 years ago I’d regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or “could not install, retried” updates. They’ve improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they’ve “improved” is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7’s user interface today.

    Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won’t check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows ecosystem prison system.

    • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1時間前

      They’ve improved nothing at all in that time

      A huge chunk of my work used to be fixing things after a client’s Windows OS went tits-up after an update for seemingly no reason.

      These days, those cases are incredibly rare and when they happen there’s usually an underlying hardware condition.

      Windows has been able to roll back botched updates for about 10 years now. I’d say that qualifies as an improvement.

      • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        52分前

        In my experience, updates that break boot are up 250% since 7, and their “roll back” for “Feature” and “quality” upgrades fails 85% of the time, “Sorry we weren’t able to uninstall…”

        Not to mention that they’ve disabled the default registry backup since 10. Go ahead- check the “regback” folder. There’s nothing in it. Don’t even get me started on auto-bitlockering.

        Odd how we have such different experiences the last 10 years.

    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
      132·
      1日前

      Enterprises/corporations exist. Many of us have to use Windows for work, and no, I can’t just go to the CEO and demand we move to Linux 💁🏻

        • thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.appEnglish
          1·
          1日前

          Yep. If you don’t mind a company subscription model (the software doesn’t get removed after the period, just can’t download updates) Stardock for Windows is awesome. Fences were invaluable for me and they also sell skin customisation that achieves this same idea.

          • aloofPenguin@piefed.worldEnglish
            1·
            16時間前

            the software doesn’t get removed after the period, just can’t download updates

            wish I knew that back then. had a huge interest in customization and stuff. Oh well, too late now…

    • thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      1·
      1日前

      I have a Win XP VM on my server for the nostalgia, plus if I want to sync my iPod Touches to iTunes the best compatible way was a VM running XP and the appropriate iTunes version.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    17時間前

    You have X number of OS versions, Y number of different hardware variations, and Z number of applications.

    Easy-peasy. What can possibly go wrong?

  • lukaro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    152·
    1日前

    I’m not affectred, Microsoft said my PC was too old so I tthem to fuck off and don’t use their OS anymore.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1日前

      Same boat, after that happened with 1 PC, I went all in: Ublue distros in 4 PCs, 1 Steam Deck (Steam OS), 2 servers running Proxmox VE.

      ~3 years now since the switch. Freaking loving it.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    1日前

    It’s not nice for Microsoft to call Windows 11 a “bug”. It’s true, but it isn’t nice…

    • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      19時間前

      Bazzite s good because its immutable so you can’t fuck it up as easily.

      Kind of disappointing when what you want isn’t in the discover store but I imagine most people won’t really be bothered by that.

      Cachyos is another good one if you want handheld mode option, and in my opinion is better than bazzite.

      Ubuntus not bad if you are a noob because it is really easy to google for and figure stuff out, and software wise I think most stuff works for Ubuntu. But for numerous reasons I do not support or like Ubuntu anymore. And I used them sense xenial xeurs or whatever until focal fossa was released, then started moving to arch based.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        15時間前

        Ubuntus not bad if you are a noob because it is really easy to google for and figure stuff out,

        Counterpoint: some of the advice out there is so old that it doesn’t work due to the command formatting having changed

        • FoxAlive@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          13時間前

          I imagine that could compound too when you ask google something and the ai search results brings up older stuff because that’s more documented.