Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac

• hazelnoot@beehaw.org ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    That may be.
    I’ve always disabled all that stuff immediately. Even applied ReviOS to permanently remove it all 6ish months ago.

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• SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The severity of the bugs that they’re having to roll back for does not scream “stable OS” to me.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “has been” is right, lol

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