• Reygle@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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 💁🏻

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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    4 months ago

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

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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.