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[–] karashta@piefed.social 7 points 59 minutes ago

Windows 11 is literately the best windows ever.

It got me to install Linux, ditch Google as my phone provider and take an even harder stance against all these fucked up billionaire monsters.

Thanks windows 11!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If only there was an operating system not controlled by evil megacorporations.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ya, I'm sure the AI code isn't helping, but is it materially any different? I spent way too many long nights trying to unfuck Windows servers after updates failed to install correctly. And that was well before the AI Slop Boom. Even more fun is when the update reported installing correctly but the Nessus scans came back showing the old version of DLLs still in the System32 folder. There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1. At minimum, you give them a week to let the foolhardy and fanboys get their disks slapped by Microsoft, again.

Going back to my days supporting Window 2000/2003, I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever, because of too much downtime due to bad updates. Even today, updating in OT environments can be very difficult due to shitty software running on really old versions of Windows. At least that stuff can usually be kicked off the network and left to rot in isolation.

[–] Toga65@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The past month that I've spent using Fedora with a 5070ti and playing games like Arc Raiders and KCD 2 has genuinely been the most stable my computer has been in about a decade.

Also a lot of my smaller issues like USB and Conrroller disconnects disappeared completely.

I thought I was going crazy.

Windows is awful garbage.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

"5070", "a decade", something doesn't add up

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

So there's this guy named theseus, right?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Might wanna re-read that comment mate

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago

If it was only Windows... All MS products have gone to Win 95 era reliability in the last few months.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 40 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

this one was posted here on lemmy (i think) recently

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago

this is just 5% of microslop

[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 7 points 3 hours ago

"Prompting mass uninstall workaround" sounds like an awfully complicated way of saying "a lot of people switched to Linux"

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Earlier I saw something about Microsoft wanting to earn back lost trust and I actually literally laughed out loud about it.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

Super easy to do though.

Extend support for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.

Wall up Copilot. Make AI integrations optional with granular control for each app and data source.

Double the technical staff at Microsoft and create a large team with the specific job of paring down system resource usage. It's ridiculous that an operating system uses more resources at idle than Skyrim does.

Don't even talk about 12 yet. Even better, annouce that Windows 12 is scrapped in order to provide more resources to fix 11 and support 10.

And... A little extra fun. Sell half of the RAM Microsoft has stockpiled while the AI bubble is still intact.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they had CoPilot code them a time machine to go back to 2004.

I'd love them to all get in there first and let me know how it works out.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely wild that there was a time when Microsoft had three generally well regarded consumer products in Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 all at the same time, compared to where they are now in all of those product spaces.

Windows was Windows, but 7 was largely consistent and didn’t need to be fought with like its successors.

The 360 was the go-to console for developers and gamers, despite the RROD issues, which I’d even give them credit for for handling (eventually) after lots of us got 2 free games and a free controller from them following the debacle.

Windows Phone 7 had a superb interface, great hardware and genuinely stood out.

Now they have nothing and are hated more than ever.

[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 5 hours ago

So, business as usual.

Patch Tuesday didn't become a thing for no reason.