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It's unusable and they vibe coded the entire thing.
We had to switch back to windows 10 at work due to the issues we had with 11. Now my computer is permanently broken with many default applications that simply do not work and my IT department can't figure it out.
I had Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Ally that I was too lazy to remove. Bitlocker locked the system randomly and would not accept the recovery key from my Microsoft Account.
I installed Bazzite the next day.
The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, [...]
Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.
...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.
They will shove ads into our faces at every possible opportunity. Ads work, they effectively brainwash you, the more you see, the better they do.
I switched to linux and i dual boot pop os windows now. I only use windows to configure things that has no linux support. Or when a game doesn't work right after an update. Windows is truly bizzare if you haven't used it for a bit. Like every time i clicked on the windows key, or sometimes, seemingly randomly when i opened a new windows, it opened the xbox game launcher, or whatever it's called. I never installed it obviously. I couldn't really find it, because i uninstalled everything that had the name xbox in it.i "had" to watch a video on how to disable something that i didn't install and didn't want in the first place.
Note that it doesn't disable ads. It just means the ads a user sees will be less relevant to the user based on their browsing history and consumer profiles.
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
They can be removed with third party tools but they shouldn't be there in the first place.
And everywhere you go there's prompts and alerts to upgrade your OneDrive storage or subscribe to Xbox game pass.
Don't even get me started on the experience on handhelds. Microsoft's attempts so far at the Xbox Full Screen experience convinces me they will never get it right.
Windows recently "hung up" when opening "network and internet settings", just a blank square.
Also, blank square when opening "file explorer".
Both are working now; my point is I couldn't accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.
Consumers are what, less than 10% of MS's revenue? Most of their income is from cloud (Azure, O365) so they can afford to treat their consumer customers like trash. They don't give a shit about your 50-150 bucks for a win license because it's peanuts to them.
The only viable option for consumers is to massively ditch MS products altogether and migrate to alternatives, which used to be in short supply but luckily aren't anymore.
It's probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don't install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.
And yeah, consumer Windows could disappear and MS wouldn't care, as long as office computers are still stuck with it. Which they are.
Windows is getting so bad, people are finally looking more to Linux
Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he's bought the original Surface table from 2007, he's been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.
Yep.
I started using windows as a kid (Win 3.1). Was more or less happy to be a windows user through all of the various versions, although 95, XP and 7 were the most usable.
For the first time in about 35 years, I'm genuinely unhappy with Windows and am looking at other options.
They've really dropped the ball if users like me are unhappy.
The real issue is that they pulled Windows 10. When Vista was shit, you could use XP until 7 was released, when 8 was shit, you could use 7 until 10 was released. Now 11 is the only supported version and you have no choice if you're for some reason stuck with Windows.
Lol
Lmao even
The tech bros are turning everything to shit so you don’t notice any one thing is shit because it’s all shit now. Genius
Turns out, there were a lot of users, primarily gamers, who were considering giving Linux a chance. Microsoft gave them the push they needed.
Steam should get some credit for working on improving its proton integration.
Valve certainly put in the lion's share of effort in making Linux a hospitable environment for gamers. Without their hard work, the rise in popularity of Linux simply wouldn't be possible, and I had no intention of belittling that.
Valve made sure there were life rafts. Microsoft provided the iceberg.
I can ignore them just fine since I am no longer using Windows.
I haven't used Windows for more than 10 years and I'm happy too.
I think it's worth repeating that Ubuntu has been available since 2005 (20 years now) and from the start it filled the needs of most users at home (i.e. watching crap on YouTube and using LibreOffice). Most users I have seen around me only have basic requirements and should have switched decades ago.
TL;DR: if you complain about your computer nowadays and don't play games, install Ubuntu or Mint or anything else, I don't care anymore.
Even playing games on Linux is much better now thanks to Steam. Never a better time to change. I want my next phone to have Ubuntu Touch as well. Fuck the horrible Google/Apple ecosystem.
Time for Nadella to take responsibility for these fuck ups and resign already.
CEOs taking responsibility for their actions? In the Usa?!?!
I detest this company for many reasons, it's like they go out of their way to make dealing with them as painful as possible.
Here's just one example I discovered today. I have a Windows 10 VM I needed to upgrade to 11 but the "PC Health Check" app says no, the i5 processor isn't supported.
I can, however, create a new VM and install 11 on the exact same hardware, so that's what I did, along with a whole bunch of extra work to get the new VM set up the same as the old Windows 10 VM was.
Why? Because fuck you, that's why.
Assholes.
This is how i feel about 98% of Azure. Its just so needlessly complicated, with incomprehensible defaults, and out of date documentation, and APIs that just fail silently.
Oh no. They’ll still ignore it. They don’t care.
I’m starting to think Microsoft gives windows a new version number every time they want to make a bunch of big breaking changes, just so the bad reputation can die when they rebrand it as Windows 12 (or whatever stupid naming scheme their marketing team comes with next.)
Su that's why they never released 9 - it was too perfect and they wouldn't make money in the future
I wouldn't be surprised if they just started calling it Copilot at some point. I could see them renaming their "agents" after big feature updates, much like we do with hurricanes which would be fitting given their history of breaking things with each KB.
I've been a Windows user my whole life. I support 5000+ Windows devices along with the whole Microsoft enterprise suite. It's been bad with them, but there have usually been patches at some point or at least community discovered workarounds. However, Microsoft's reckless abandon into AI legitimately worries me.
I'm finally making the switch to Linux for personal devices.
This generation of software companies really seem to have abandoned all previous goals for "Let's see how shit we can make this!"
"Sir, if we can finish our robot it could help with any household chores and even take over most of the care work for the elderly. Then in future patches we could make it waterboard the user unless they get the waterboardless premium subscription. Then we'll increase the cost and slowly reintroduce waterboarding even for subscribers."
I have been very successful at ignoring Windows for quite some time.
Frankly I’ve never had any issues running Windows 11. It’s just the OS in the background for me. I think the biggest difference is I always run Enterprise versions (not Pro or Home) and most of that crap is either non-existent, disabled by default or easy to disable via GPO.
The big thing for people to realize is that Enterprise is the version most all businesses (especially large ones) run, and Microsoft isn’t going to crap on them as easily. And they know by extension, people will run what their business is, but they can get away with making Pro and Home crappier since it’s just individuals who would switch, not large swaths.
Ha! It's 2026 now. Those problems can easily be ignored as they are all in the past.
