This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
is there any anecdotal evidence that IT departments are at least considering, thinking about, having an initial assessment of doing anything but just buying whatever slop microsoft is spewing out?
kinda feels like until the river of gold from enterprise sales slows there is no downside to microsoft burning their platform.
my anecdote is that no, IT is still a MS crack addict.
day to day people who don’t care about computers as a hobby memorize the steps to using their computers along with the icons. The average person couldn’t use Linux in a work environment simply because they lack critical thinking skills required to use Linux. Your everyday middle management refuses to cut productivity for long term change that isn’t overwhelmingly positive to their bottom line.
Weird. Monthly updates used to be pretty harmless with a bunch of little bug fixes that really only affected a few people. Then AI came out, and in the past 6 months or so every patch Tuesday has been a complete disaster. It's almost as if they laid off a bunch of engineers and now have the remaining ones just vibe coding shit while using the same LLM to do code review and everything is going to hell. Not that it was a phenomenal product to begin with, but when you have engineers vibe coding patches for such a delecate platform, it's going to end in disaster.
Serious question, what is causing Microsoft to consistently put out bad products and broken updates?
Copilot
My work machine forgot the resolution of my presentation monitor after the update. Love it
Fedora KDE. Looks better. Runs better. Never going back.
I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
I second this, along with removing ~~kamikaze~~ I mean Copilot.
Best we can do is remind you later.
You can procure windows LTSC.
So, microsoft, how's that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
I wonder if that's why my work PC has been having all kinds of stuttering/lag issues. I'm regularly seeing a second or two between clicking/typing at various points throughout the day.
Project K2, baby!
/s if it wasn't obvious.
Yeah. My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back. The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute. What an OS.
My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back.
Almost certainly driver, sometimes a failing dock or cable though.
The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute.
That's just adobe products. They're great for subscription revenue for adobe.
I switched to fedora for work myself and onlyoffice is handling my current pdf needs, works great and FOSS. Can save to DOCX and everything.. and the same program handles those too.
Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it's always unmistakably Adobe's fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
Mine has been doing shit like that for close to a year, the graphics driver is sooooo unstable
Nice.
My employer just switched away from Adobe, so thankfully, haven't see those issues.
I dual boot Linux and Windows and it's really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.
It's so jarring to go into Windows.
What's jarring is how using Linux after windows my brain feels slow. Everything opens and loads instantly. Its crazy the difference.
Hello dual-boot brother.
Same.
I dual booted for about a month before I killed windows. Almost everything just works without it.
Yeah I got tired of the coin toss of if the update was gonna brick my PC or not
Yeah, that's not the case for me unfortunately.
Ironically people who "btw I use Arch" have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol
This was just this week
Nobody is freaking out who isn't a moron.
There are a handful of arch users who eat crayons... if the windows users in 2026 leave any I mean.
I use Bazzite btw
What a gamers nexus normie!
I agree. It’s the ideal choice for gaming, and until recently, I had never heard of it. I can’t imagine going back to Windows 11 unless I was held at gun point and even then.
Sweet
precious arch user repository
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.
Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.
Maybe so. I use cachy just for the record, so I'm not piling on with linux hate. I'm just enjoying the madness of it all. :)
I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that's unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I'd just manually install that instead (it shouldn't change if it isn't maintained anyway).
I had a mild panic then realised I've never used AUR so I'm fine
Good thing I dont use Windoze 11
It's got to be deliberate, they can't be this incompetent, can they? That's even scarier oh dear god
Vibe coding all the way....
didn't notice tbf. because i haven't used this goblinshit for months.
goblinshit
My new favorite descriptor. Nice job!
So, all in all... A relatively decent Windows update compared to the average?
