Mild shock

Dec 7, 2025 10:41 AM

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Yep, newest fucking update broke my windows 11 and the fucking first update broke it. Then next "we need to fix your computer" update forced itself and it broke it even more! Fuck you microsoft

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So glad my computer keeps begging ne to make more room so it can update to 11.
I feel like a dominatrix who wont let my client climax. Thats right you little bitch, beg me.

9 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Winblows

9 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 2

You say this as if it's something new. For decades, Microsoft's business model is to release a product before it's ready, and let the rest of the world act as beta testers. They spend the first year or more releasing patches until finally it works reasonably well. The only difference is, now they're doing it with AI.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

One more reason I'm moving to Linux in the future.

9 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Microsoft makes more money from its datacenters than it does with Windows. Azure core infrastructure is running on Linux.

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And something to keep in mind is that's going to affect where effort is directed, similar with sponsors for projects like KDE. Just as consumers don't pay for windows so like most corporations MS follows the money, consumers aren't putting up incentives for linux related projects to improve, it's a happy byproduct the whole ecology works out as well as it does.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Time to switch to Linux then? It's easier than ever to use. Also it can run games now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)

9 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

As long as it's not a multiplayer games with anti-cheat that the devs choose not to enable Linux support.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And ypu have the right hardware combination

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It seems there’s been more issues with the last two months of patches than the prior two years - just a shame M$ can’t see that…

9 months ago | Likes 257 Dislikes 3

Need to fire more SE's and use more AI to fix it.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If only there was a way a way MS could track patch performance for a certain time period. Na, let's just overly complicate simple programs like notepad and MS Paint so they're unusable.

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"shame M$ can’t see that" yeah, the decision making is big problem, like a lot of things AI is just the tool which humans can use in dumb ways. It's going to take a lot of effort like focussing on sorting out security for xp sp2, and probably time to get fixes done, or even change windows design decisions, but none of that happens without a high-level decision to do that.

9 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Even for xp, they probably didn't want to do a major sp2 but felt they had to because not doing it was worse, and allocating engineers to that likely played into other factors like the cancelling of the troubled Longhorn project that seemd to overhaul windows and restart with a less impressive vista. Failing to execute that overhaul about 20 years ago probably meant windows will never do much more than stagnate, most would be happy with maintained win2k/xp

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Microsoft started slipping down the slope years ago, they're on the cliffs edge. They won't fail outright, they have some patchy parachutes.

9 months ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

The CEO is baffled that people aren't impressed by AI. I wonder why because W11 is a clusterfuck. Every update needs an update to fix an update, which needs another update to fix that update etc etc. Windows doesn't give a shit about it's users anymore. It's all about profit. Remember XP and W7? No telemetry, ads, spyware, AI, CoPilot. It just worked. Quick, stable and they looked good.
I installed Linux in 2017 and never looked back.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As someone who uses Win11 I can't say I noticed any of this.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

as someone who knows a death flag when he sees one, stop what you're doing and make a system restore point.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ahahhahahahhhahahahhahahhahhahahhahha

*breathes in linux*

Ahahhahahhahhahhahhahahaha

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Works fine for me.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm not going to pretend Linux is perfect, but at least I'm not paying for a broken OS when I use Linux.

9 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

At least our OS is broken in novel, bespoke ways of our own doing *nods*

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

who pays for Windows 11? It's a FREE (mandatory) upgrade if you already had Win 7 or later

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Only if you already had it. Custom PC builds don't get this perk

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Microsoft is possibly the one company that needs the least public facing innovation (obviously they still need to do stuff on the back end). They're the utility OS. The hammer. The tool people default to for reliability. Every time they try to pepper their product with BS, it costs them money and becomes a joke for years (guys 'member Vista?). Just be boring Microsoft. Let the other people use AI on your boring system and the money will come.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And you can't really opt out of them either. Frustrating.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's rather amazing how Microsoft is doing its damnest to make people switch to Linux. If all the Linux distros were owned by a company then this would all look like sabotage sponsored by that company.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I left for Linux. Bazzite is great.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I truly knew I was going into a special time in my life when I selected "update and shut down" for the first time and my computer updated and restarted

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Not to defend Microsoft but that last headline about all features being broken was bullshit

9 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

Source?

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was based on a response to a ticket by a random tech. But he had Microsoft credentials so they ran the story.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I agree. I saw nothing broken and I use Windows 11 as my primary OS.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

/sigh. Time to start looking into Linux then.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Microsoft is planning on another round of layoffs in January. BTW, they won't even consider an app or new software unless it can be projected to make an 80% net profit, and they have more capital reserves than most small nations.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Remember how AWS shat itself and bricked half of the Internet for a weekend until Amazon's one skilled techie came back from vacation and fixed it all within 30 minutes?
Remember how Amazon was bragging about how much of its workforce they were making redundant with AI agents, culminating in a layoff of tens of thousands of people?
I wonder how long it will be until they connect their own dots...

9 months ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 1

The only way they will is if a bean counter actually asks the question and compiles the data : how much did we save in labour and overhead versus how much did the outage cost and how likely is a repeat. For an org the size of AWS, that is a nontrivial exercise. So it won't get asked unless the C suite will benefit from the answer.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They won't. Even after the entire internet collapsed because the ceos fell for the techbro shit and thought running everything on ai is the solution to everything

9 months ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Remember when Leon from tesler fired a bunch of people from Twitter and broke a bunch of tools people used and the site went down like a bunch of times since then? But you'll hear on the internet how he saved the site and that those people were just money leeches

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All they learned was that more PTO is detrimental to the business 😂

9 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

As an IT person I hate AI with a passion

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the AWS layoffs were also due to poor performance and trump's tariffs. when they were announced earlier this year, they were the largest layoffs in amazon's history. I don't cheer when people lose their jobs, but I want amazon to crash and burn.

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

"poor performance" was an obvious farce as well, they are just chasing short term stock bumps versus longer term business models like "producing a working product"

9 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I’m sorry.. you have a link for that?

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Meh, amazons most prized techie just got off the boat when the issue got rectified. Perhaps the lesser goons found the post-it with the password for the admin console just in time.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That localhost bs cause my companion app for elite dangerous to break as well

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They were right when they said windows 10 would be the last windows, because it would be for million including myself

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Im working to move to linux.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I am doing so, to a z1 legion go s running steamos :)
Gonna dock it to a monitor/mouse/keyboard for PC use & use it handheld for gaming. Ticks all boxes and no windows.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

whenever anyone says 'sure, let's trust Bill Gates', remember, he directed one of the most hated, incompetent, and obnoxious companies in the world. He's just another creepy grifter.

9 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 10

Bill Gates has been retired from MS for decades. He's not writing fucking code now is he? It's a publicly traded company FFS that Gates only has shares in. Controlling shares no doubt but he's not running the day to day in 2025. But yes when he was in charge he was indeed obnoxious, monopolistic and dishonest. And yes his wife divorced him and took billions because he refused to stop associating with Epstein. Hold on... You're right.

9 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

Was going to say, defending a billionaire on the internet isn't very cash money of you, but you got there on your own. Proud of you.

9 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Whether you like Bill Gates or not, I'm not sure how you an call him a grifter. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated over $100 billion to charities and Bill has provided over $60 billion of that himself.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

i fully expect they came with all kinds of strings attached and generated power for him in some way. A friend of mine used to work for a charity he funded and said she felt filthy

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You would be wrong.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Grifter is a funny way to spell Pedo... Melinda French Gates has publically stated that her ex-husband's association with Jeffrey Epstein was a significant factor in her decision to pursue a divorce.

9 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Another part is that they approved it for release

9 months ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 1

CodeRabbit reviewed the code and saw it was good

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The approval for release is now done by AI to save time and money!

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

What do you mean, I got AI to look at the code and it said it was great!

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Win11 is the greatest gift linux has ever received!

9 months ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

That’s adorable. I have nothing against Linux itself, and have my own favorite flavor, but people like you don’t understand the average consumer mindset that has kept Windows the mainstream even though 8, Vista, Me, and 95. Or how iPhones remain insanely popular even if behind in features and specs. Average people do not want to have to think their PCs and phones as long as most of what they use it for mostly works most of the time.

9 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 5

At work we sell products driven by computer cabinets with many baremetal machines. We are running Windows on each computer and vm. Long story short, directors were convinced we had to stay with MS for stability and such. With Windows 11 arrival it's now pretty clear to everybody that we need to move to Linux, and we are. Consumers won't ditch windows but companies already are. Add Broadcom buying vmware and fucking it up, and you have a perfect recipe for Linux to get more popular.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Honestly I know Microsoft isn't perfect but I have genuinely *never* experienced a serious code-level issue with my PC. I use it for digital art, writing, and gaming, though; I'm not a programmer or some such. I know Linux is better, but it does not support the art programs I use and I'm not a fan of the alternatives that do work on it. It's not that I don't want to have to think, it's that my most beloved hobbies are tied to my little rig.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Android Linux already rules mobile & I'm replacing my windows 10 laptop with SteamOs Linux, will dock a handheld for desktop use.

SteamOS uses an Android style sealed rootfs + ota updates, making it no harder to manage than a smartphone.
The barrier to entry is gone, windows is over.

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

yeaah. the world runs on microsoft office. i highly doubt there'll be a paradigm shift in my lifetime.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

if anyone were to have develop a competing product, it'll still wouldn't be enough because a) you'd get bought out my the tech giants b) the integration problem

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You really don't understand the mindset of the average user.

9 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

'Steam handheld go brrr'
These days, the average user doesn't own or know how to use a desktop PC. Mobile is king.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Glad I'm still on 10...

9 months ago | Likes 158 Dislikes 2

I'm on 11, because "some" of the new features are good, but I stopped updating any major updates after 23H2 (just sticking with security ones). Everything went to shit after that.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wish we had some law or bull that forced a company like MS to keep supporting older product for at least 10 years after a new version comes out. Like landfill owners are required to maintain them 15years after they "close" them. So stupid they are allowed to already stop supporting windows 10.

9 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I switched to Linux and feel like such an idiot for not doing it years earlier.

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'm still on 7 and Office 2003. I'm not getting a new machine until this one up and dies.

9 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

This might be stupid to ask, but are you still getting virus protection?

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes use one of the free antivirus ones

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Microsoft offered extended updates for a year. Some people were given it for free, others had to pay $30. I don't know how Microsoft decided that.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes, in fact I've gotten a few security updates on my Win10 Pro machines after it were supposedly "no longer supported" a few months ago. So I'm suspicious that it was just another grift to scare people to upgrade to something they didn't need.

At the end of the day, most of today's security threats aren't targeting retail users. They want to hit commercial and critical municipal machines, and ransom the data for a seven-figure payout.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Windows 10 should be. Windows 7 only stopped sometime in the beginning of the year.
You can still use a 3rd party anti-virus program if you want.

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I've got everything blocked possible on every level... I'll keep using 10 until this PC becomes a paperweight. Well... unless maybe they come out with 12 and it's actually good.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If you use windows with specific apps and not need newer ones then keep your OS running with antivirus and don't visit dodgy sites. You will be good.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

With proper adblock... you don't even really need antivirus. And yet companies seem so confused that we use them.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Expect them to learn nothing from this disaster, so you won't be disappointed

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Since the money grubbing overlords seem hellbent to try (and fail) and save money on everything with AI... it could definitely be a while. Not to mention trying to put ads into every new thing. Because heaven forbid we buy anything outright.

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I jumped ship to Linux. The only 2 things I "lost" were Fortnite and Xbox Game Pass which I was cancelling due to the price hikes. Been smooth sailing ever since.

9 months ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

I have a dual boot setup on all my computers since 15 years, running Windows 7/10/11 and Ubuntu on the setups. I have used Ubuntu 10.04+ as my daily driver. I use Windows only for printing hi-quality photos and some very specific tools.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same, the Proton layer eliminates so many of the previous downsides.

9 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Much thanks to GloriousEggroll for the Proton-GE updates that let me play even more games too. Still kills me that basically the rest of the Wine team took contract work with Valve to make Steam's Proton but Eggroll is still trucking along basically alone and still keeping ahead of them while maintaining the Nobara Linux distro. The man is insane.

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What flavor would you recommend? I tried to use Ubuntu but it was pretty hit or miss.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you are strictly browsing and office tasks Linux Mint is a nice startpoint. If you are gaming mainly Bazzite or SteamOS. If you want to stream/game/edit/design Nobara. Ubuntu is powerful but comes very barebones so its not very approachable for most. The benefit of things like Bazzite and Nobara (both Fedora Linux based) is most of what you need comes preinstalled.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm transitioning. I have Pop!_OS and Fedora on my laptops but my desktop is still Windows 11. Love the Linux life. One downside is one of my laptops is a Surfacebook 2, and apparently the hardware is hella specific and I have some compatibility issues. No issues on my other one, though.

I can even run some of my fav Windows software on it. I like to do graphic design and digital art, and I got the Affinity suite running smooth on them through Lutris.

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm in the middle of preparing to go back to 10, i'd go back to 7 pro if i could lol

9 months ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

honestly dont , switch to linux , more friendly gaming linux or steam OS

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm still on 7. Only reason I'm gonna eventually got o linux is that a bunch of newer games just don't work on 7 anymore, mostly Unity's fault.

9 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Yeah, I'm a gamer first a foremost, but i have been leaning into my PS5 more and more in recent years. I think i may be able to jump to Linux at some point and kiss Windows PC gaming goodbye.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The real crunch for win10 comes when ESU (not LTSC) ends and then frameworks like chromium drop support, and downstream applications that use it drop support, then you're well into "your mileage may vary" territory. I'm still on 10, but you've got to consider escape routes, for me linux is just a reboot away.

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Games not working was the only reason I caved and made the switch to 10.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0