I accidentally "upgraded" a test machine by hitting Enter during a BIOS update prompt. The machine rebooted into Windows 11 setup, which then took 45 minutes and required a Microsoft account (or knowledge of the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick).

If you want to block the upgrade permanently:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersionInfo /t REG_SZ /d "22H2" /f

Or just install Linux and never worry about it again.

[–] beeb@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

You misspelled Microslop

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Really pissed because about a year ago in february it upgraded without my informed consent and I never noticed until something else bad happened. You can only downgrade if you notice within a week.

It's real fuckin insidious, I had already reformatted my PC once too recently so I juuuust kinda toughed it out.

Anyways, they keep everything same-ish which prevents you from noticing they changed your whole OS which should be illegal.

[–] remon@ani.social 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Your system does not support Windows 11".

Best error message I ever got!

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or, windows 11 doesnt support my system. Not my problem.

Its actually interesting how they phrased it so that our systems are the problem and not their product.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You're goddamn right!

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

ITT: people giving unasked for advice to a comic on a comedic community because they simply cannot help themselves.

[–] zemo@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Linux users aren't known for their impulse control.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

great opportunity to try out bazzite or cachyos :P

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[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

Downgrade your PC to avoid having this issue. Follow me for more terrible tech tips you should never have to do in the first place.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

My boss at work told it to download thinking that he would have a choice to install in when he wanted. Now he understands what a virus is.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have to use it, it's the corporate setup. Every day I envy plumbers who unclog toilets.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

Come for the pay, stay for the food.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 91 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. Most things still run on it, and that baby's got no user-facing slop and five more years of support in it. Mass Grave dot dev.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick lobotomy

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

+1 massgrave. Got the extended support for my regular W10 pro. After that, it's going to be debian if - fingers crossed - nothing breaks. It's a 6700K build.

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a 6700K build.

That's hot, are you sure you hooked up the fans?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

That's just the RGBW LED color temperature.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Going to Linux is probably the more sustainable solution (I ended up on Ubuntu and my 4130 is happy enough) but you apparently might be able to convert-in-place to the IoT edition, if that's the route you'd prefer to go down.

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 303 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 107 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you're used to Linux.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 5 points 19 hours ago

And that exact reason is why I use a distro with rolling updates

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

At least that's usually an honest mistake, instead of some managers trying to juice their numbers through dark patterns.

Unless, of course, you're using Ubuntu. Then it might also be a manager trying to juice their numbers.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do a yay (sudo pacman -Syu, under the hood) every two weeks or so and shit don't break. Dunno what weird program dependencies y'all have for stuff to break so often.

In any case, if shit broke, I have snapshots of the last 5 days and last 5 upgrades. It's automatic, not rocket science.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Dude, Arch is a rolling release, it has no dist-upgrade equivalent. You're not even in the right conversation.

Debian, Ubuntu, .. and plenty of other distros have. Just upgrading my server from Ubuntu 22 to 24 (both LTS) took an hour or two of fixing things.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 20 hours ago

Then ... don't do that?

Is there something that 24 had and 22 didn't and you just had to have that feature? If not, just stick with 22.

Or if you're one of those who just has to have the latest of everything, you should be on a rolling release distro instead, and you won't have this issue.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You are the one that introduced a non rolling release distro in a generic Linux chain. It was generic Linux, then you did a comment specific to non rolling distros, then I did one specific to rolling distros.

I wanted to highlight the disparity of the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

I don't see a problem with our comment exchange.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 20 hours ago

the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

Personally, I still prefer the non-rolling distros.

A rolling distro might break on any update, and you never know when.

But for non-rolling, you can wait until you have available time to deal with any issues. Sure there will be issues and things that need reconfiguring -- you basically just reinstalled your whole OS. But you can choose when and if that happens, so you can schedule it for a convenient time when you've got time and energy to work on it if necessary.

(And, personally, I wouldn't do the dist-upgrade thing at all. I just download the newest LTS version and install it as a fresh install, then port everything important over from backups. Nice fresh start with no old baggage hanging around. Often, I'd do that at the same time as a major hardware upgrade as well, so it's basically a new PC.)

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 35 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Damn, that never happens on my Arch Linux install.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I've also never once been prompted to install Win11 on Neon

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (22 children)

I'm deeply sorry. If it's any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.

Or at least everybody that didn't see the light and adopt The Penguin... But let's leave religion to another time.

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