RmDebArc_5Who could have predicted this?
foggianism“Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off… some day… we guess…”
lumpenproletariatThis is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game.
pewgar_seemsimandroidand especially FreeBSD
It’s paying off for the shareholders RIGHT NOW. In the future it’s provably gonna bite them in the but, but who cares? Profits now > profits later.
I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I’d put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).
The articles for windows 10 aren’t going to be great either once the security updates stop
Windows 10 IoT LTSC has security updates until 2032.
And Microsoft Activation Script will license it permanently.
But at least you’ll only have to worry about external threats, not direct delivery via windows updates.
iktare you seriously questioning reinstalling a whole OS based on a shitpost?
I wiped windows from my system for Linux instead of updating to this crap
good job but this place is like a nerd kingdom, unlikely to find any microsoft defenders around here to argue with you
andyburke... so the community is full of smart people who prefer an open source OS.
And you are lamenting there isn't anyone here to take a corporation's side?
What, exactly, are you after on the fediverse?
The elements within the meme are real issues, so yes?
The elements within the meme are real issues
nope?
It is clear that the problem is far from being resolved, and we will hear more updates on it. Meanwhile, if you have already installed the August 2025 update, it is recommended to take it easy with your drive and avoid heavy files. If you have not installed the update yet, you can pause Windows Update and wait for Microsoft to release more information on the issue.
This is a direct quote from the article you linked. I am not on windows, but it is difficult for me to intrrpret this as you seem to: that there are no issues.
So .. what are you trying to get to herw?
Oh the irony of sitting back on Win 10 being what saves people from the issue.
Possibly linuxIt is about to go EOL
BurgerBaronAI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.
Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.
Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures was everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.
Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.
(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)
thannJayzTwoCents:
BEWARE! Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration
I love jay as a creator but he gets things wrong on occasion. Example: he recently made a video suggesting that everyone running nvidia on windows use software to force rebar on globally, which is KNOWN to break games or cause performance issues (which is why it isn’t enabled globally in the first place.) At the end of the day he is still a creator driven by the algorithm and metrics for his livelihood so you gotta take what he says with a grain of salt.
which journalism outlets though? if there are vested interests I don’t trust like that. Obviously microsoft and phison are going to deny responsibility. so did intel when their 13th and 14th gen CPUs were suiciding.
lazynoobletLemmy loves Linux and rightly so, but it hates Windows even more.
Example, this is a no-subject memes community, and you’ll find plenty of anti-Windows stuff here. And the actual linuxmemes community sometimes feels like it could be renamed to hatewindowsmemes.
Not surprising, the same way /r/atheism was, for a while at least, more like /r/antichristianity. Part of the identity is opposition to “the enemy.”
Personally I think that part of the identity is unhelpful, and focus is better put on the identity being about what makes it the better choice. Like Dems losing in 2016 and 2024 because a good chunk of their messaging was “look how bad Trump is,” which only served to broadcast Trump even more.
(That’s not to say that complaints aren’t valid, it’s just a poor way to structure an identity.)
s12I heard too many stories about people’s hard drives failing after the update for the news to be false. As far as I know, the issue isn’t easily reproducible though.
Stories without data are what.
sigmaklimgrindsetI didn’t think a lot of drives were actually permanently borked, were they?
I’ll pitch in my anecdote: I updated to Windows 11 3878, everything was fine. Downloaded Helldivers onto my gaming drive overnight, and woke up in the morning seeing that the SSD was not being detected (WD Black NVME, no heatsink). Pulled it out, put it in another PC, saw that it was being detected, so I rolled back the Windows update because that’s the only other thing that had changed. Drive works fine again.
SOMETHING definitely happened, but I think it’s waaaaaaay over-reported tbh.
Jo MiranMy wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!
Such a wholesome story!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.
Even though I’m a Pop user, I put her on Mint Cinnamon because the interface is very Windows like.
That’s why I finally made the switch!
I obviously don’t know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn’t have issues working with MS-using clients.
Neither web versions nor LibreOffice can satisfy the needs of a true Excel power user. Also, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and multi-account Outlook access are all problematic unless you are using the native clients. Now she runs Windows VMs for that stuff.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I’m stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I’ve crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
She has almost a dozen active clients at the moment. Browser tabs for Outlook doesn’t help her organize them.
As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.
Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.
Fair, my own needs on spreadsheets were are formulas and enumerations, I can’t comment on more advanced uses.
balderdashI fully switched to Linux this year: it’s nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.
One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it’s OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it’s OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.
Trust but verify.
Works for so, so many scenarios these days.
It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad
.... always was.
Not really
It got a lot of people excited about computers back when the customer was the user
Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)@possiblylinux127 @andyburke I don't recall anyone ever being excited about microsoft.
Then you haven’t been around long enough. This was back when Microsoft was making Windows commercials
@possiblylinux127 I mean my second computer was a Tandy 1000 running MS-DOS 3.3. (First was a C64).
It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.
Except for people who are less tech savvy and don’t have a desire to tinker. Windows has been the standard for so long that many people don’t have knowledge outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Linux is best for those who want to dig into computers.
I’m a tech worker and know my way around Linux but I use productivity software / VR (with NVIDIA) at home and don’t want to deal with getting all of that stuff working again.
Win10 EOL is pushing me there and all of my problems would go away if more people switched but I just want to be a simple user in my downtime.
W10 LTSC IOT pushes that back to 2032. Then you can switch at your leisure.
Captain AggravatedDesktop computers are the one and only one space where Linux doesn’t utterly dominate as the kernel of choice. Supercomputers, servers, embedded devices, basically all Linux. In the mobile space, Apple and Android are a duopoly, Microsoft repeatedly tried and failed to enter that market. Microsoft managed to secure a de facto monopoly on the desktop, kept Macintosh like a pet to ward off actual monopoly lawsuits, and has spent the last 20 years just making their product worse for the user in order to wring another pint of blood out of the same moldy old turnip.
Gotta get that infinite growth. Enshittification is just the last stage.
It’s gotten wayyyy better in that regard though. It’s more a matter of what people are used to and being resistant to change, than a lack of tech savvy-ness.
I think it has a target audience that doesn’t include everyone. It is primarily for those who want to be in control of there computing.
MichaelIt is primarily for those who want to be in control of there computing.
Which becomes more and more weighty by the day, even for casual users. Bitlocker being enabled by default is a time-bomb waiting to explode.
For me, I had to switch to Linux earlier this year due to strange issues with bluetooth audio cutting out when my monitors went to sleep and game stuttering/poor performance on Windows.
Of the Air (cele/celes)A lot of beginner distros really do not at all require tinkering.