This week on Windows...

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Proving once again that windows isn’t ready for the desktop.

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I am still gaming on windows 10 pro. I am not downgrading to 11. Windows 7, and 10 is the sweet spot for windows, except you can’t play steam games on 7.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you want it running all the servers only, then?

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    • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you want unautomatable, ludicrously expensive, insecure mountains of instability… Go for it👍

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• cevn@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The other day I pressed back on the settings app and it crashed. Never happened on XP.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They… they broke the recycle bin, eh?

  So you’re just not allowed to delete files anymore?

  … I guess that would give them more AI training data and also make people need even more storage so… sure, fuck it, why not.

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  • xxxb@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    but it broke onedrive too so the ppl can’t even “buy” the storage.

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  • pipe01@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, read the article

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• unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I haven’t written code in 8 months. My family member who works at Microsoft

  But your family member hasn’t written code in 8 months! Mom on trying to understand why I don’t like AI

  This shit The obvious outcome of forcing devs to not use their brain

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  • Vince@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it’s less that they’re not allowed to use their brains, it’s more that AI is letting them “write” so much code they can’t possibly review or test it all properly.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, I’ve seen zero of these issues on windows 11.

  Windows sucks, fuck Microsoft, but stories like this are insanely overblown. It remains the most compatible way to play games without hassle.

  I’m rooting for Linux, though. Can’t wait to switch once it’s more widely accepted. Right now I just use it for a few specialized machines and purposes.

  Inb4 downvotes and judgements from obnoxious Linux fans.

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  • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yesterday the settings app crashed because I pressed the back button.

    Today Windows started shutting off for absolutely no reason at all, just gone. Normally I would say ram, psu or memory. However the same computer runs Linux just fine.

    Everyone who uses windows is just coping at this point.

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    • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Only the windows 11 users. Windows 10 is still getting security updates, and the rest works fine. If steam changes its requirement to only windows 11, I would be switching to linux.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bless your heart… Never go into IT and for the love of all that is holy, don’t get a system admin job… The world is a beautiful place until you’re knees deep in the shit

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Windows update managed to get a system I only use for gaming into an unrecoverable state a few months ago. I know a bunch of windows sysadmins, trust me, you’ve been lucky, stability this year specifically is dogshit.

    Also bitlocked has multiple backdoors which is a problem for corporate that I really cannot overstate

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  • CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t downvote you (for a couple of reasons¹), but I just wanted to share my experience: I’ve been playing games exclusively on Linux for a couple of years now, and it generally works well. Of course it depends on what games you play, and so your mileage might vary, but in some cases I even had a better experience on Linux than on Windows. Mostly due to not having to deal with windows shenanigans. (drivers, reboots, the usual).

    But I agree with you that these stories are indeed overblown. Current Windows, with all its problems and everything, is still much better than any previous Windows. I’d still avoid it if I could, and you need to do things to make it behave sanely…

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    [1] The reasons: the downvote is not meant to be a “I don’t like this”, nor “I don’t agree with this”, but should be used to signal bad comments: spam, trolls, noise… Plus, I don’t think what you said is wrong.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Current Windows, with all its problems and everything, is still much better than any previous Windows

      As someone who is forced to use Windows for work, this is just not true. It is SO MUCH SLOWER than Windows 10 or 7

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve been gaming on Linux for a bit now. I did just run into a series of games my group plays that all break Linux for the sake of kernel anticheat; which was unfortunate.

    We may see that change with the popularity of the Steam Machine, but the boost will probably be smaller than the Deck.

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• Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This issue causes internal file names to appear instead of real names in Recycle Bin confirmation dialogs.

  TOTALLY BROKEN

  ABSOLUTELY UNUSABLE

  I suppose headline hyperbole is appropriate for a shitpost, lol

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah sorry, that’s absolutely broken behavior and completely unacceptable, especially for paid software.

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  • Beangut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If there’s internal file names why the fuck can’t I rename a file while it’s open in a program?

    This operating system is garbage from a design perspective let alone its implementation

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Windows has always been hot steaming garbage. Why is this news in 2026.

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  • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s not true. XP is awesome!

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    • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is?

      Ok… it was… but is…?

      I guess you’re helping out by absorbing allll the malware 🤔😉

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  • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess there is a kind of disaster affinity that keeps people watching out for the newest ways in which it is?

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• omodasonya3@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What annoys me most about Windows is the deletion mechanism when process else has a file; I can’t delete it no matter how many times I try, and I have to reset the computer, lol.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    End task on explorer.exe and then run it again

    File explorer is a shitty thing

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It happens to everything. I updated my stock rpi’s last night and now rpi connect only works for cli.

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s true to a point, but I feel like Microsoft should have the budget and infrastructure to properly test their releases. A bug every once in a while? Sure. Multiple serious bugs that break major features every year? Pretty embarrassing.

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    • filcuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Didn’t they go through a lot of effort to not have to have many testers?
      They have rolling releases and preview channels for regular users to bugtest for them.
      All this money can now be spent where it matters - on a new yacht

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My fleet of windows machines are working fine though.

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• decapitae@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nearly every time… when will the ‘consumer base’ learn?

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