Then why do they keep having to roll back what seems like every update they release due to some major bug?
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Steve@communick.news 3 weeks agoWindows is remarkably stable. Has been for many years.
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Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Seems like is doing a lot of work here.
But to answer the question: To be sure it stays stable. Rolling back buggy updates is a good thing.PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The severity of the bugs that they’re having to roll back for does not scream “stable OS” to me.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Of course not. It whispers. You have to lean in closely, and know what you’re listening for. From a distance you wouldn’t know.
dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 3 weeks ago
I sincerely hope you’re trolling.
I teach computer science and windows has been the biggest source of problems I’ve had in the last five years: I’ve seen defender delete their programs when compiling them, I’ve seen it delete gcc because it thought it was malware, I’ve seen it do forced updates in the middle of a test, I’ve seen updates break tools like compilers and servers that needed to be reinstalled on a daily basis, I’ve seen onedrive make some of their files inaccessible, I’ve seen updates break their wifi, I’ve seen it take upwards of 10 minutes to log into our AD domain, the list of problem goes on.
These days windows is a piece of shit, especially if you’re a developer. I’m basically forced to have them either install linux or do all their development in wsl, and it fucking sucks.
Anivia@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I sincerely hope you’re trolling.
He is, it’s painfully obvious. If not from his original comment, then at the very least from his follow-ups to the replies he got
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Again none of those things are the actual OS. They’re all optional features and programs. Every one of those problems can be turned off. Most with simple settings toggles.
I’d expect that kind of thing to be 101 level computer science stuff. Setting up your machine as a proper development platform.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Setting up your machine as a proper development platform.
Well they can’t force everyone to install Linux unfortunately.
motruck@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You are using GNU development tools, largely targeting non-windows operating systems, on Windows. Just use Linux
Janx@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“has been” is right, lol
hazelnoot@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
it was stable, up until a few years ago. But starting when MS scaled back their QA department (Windows 10 era IIRC) - and worsening when they went all-in on AI (Windows 11 era), stability and reliability has fallen off a cliff. I started tracking crashes and problems that required manual intervention, and over the last two years I’ve spent more hours debugging and fixing Windows 11 than Xubuntu. This is the first time in my life where Linux has required less maintenance than a stock Windows installation. It’s bad enough that I advised all my non-technical family members to stay on Windows 10 instead of upgrading to Windows 11, despite the lack of support.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
That may be.
I’ve always disabled all that stuff immediately. Even applied ReviOS to permanently remove it all 6ish months ago.ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I think a majority of people would consider needing to disable multiple parts of the default installed system to not encounter potentially breaking bugs to be a pretty big indicator that the platform is not as stable as it used to be.
Personally, I never had to disable anything, perform any specific actions, or disable a particular part of Windows XP or Window 7 to achieve a very stable system, and new updates generally didn’t introduce any bugs either since MS had a pretty big QA team.
There are now regularly reports of major or critical components of a windows system failing or even becoming unbootable due to updates or bugs in new features in Windows 11, which is very much a change from the norm.
It is likely these bugs are being introduced far more frequently due to MS laying off the majority of their QA team, and instead relying on regular users to report bugs after they have already been shipped.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Wow. I had full blue-screen system crashes every couple months at least, even daily with XP and 7. I haven’t seen any with 10 or 11. But I’ve always kept them both pretty clean.
irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Lmao what in the world
SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
When fucking File Explorer freezes a CAD machine for several minutes at a time resulting in explorer.exe crashing and restarting multiple times a day I’d say it’s not as stable as I got used to. Several of us at the place I work at have been dealing with this, although it has been getting better, it never should have happened in the first place.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
That’s not the OS really.
Explorer restarting is no different than any app.
Becides, It depends on the specifics, but good chance it’s the CAD software doing something it shouldn’t. Specific small market industry software is notoriously quirky and troublesome.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Nope, it happens with literally just a couple explorer windows, outlook, and teams open. The CAD box comment was just to make clear that it is not on underpowered hardware by any means. And I’ve managed to trigger it with nothing but explorer windows open.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Okay. I don’t know what it could be. I’m not gonna troubleshoot your specific company issue blind from a distance . But still not the OS.