Not really windows related but my work wonders why as an IT guy I think it’s a bad idea to force updates the day they come out.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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So, microsoft, how's that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
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Linux Users:
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
I use Arch, btw. But no, I wouldn't blame my incompetence on my distro even if I were infected, which I wasn't.
I use Bazzite btw
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.
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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.
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Mostly because they were doing the linux equivalent to downloading .exe's from limewire.
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.
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The company I work for is currently in the process of switching from our own server and email client to Outlook and OneDrive. It's gonna be a fucking nightmare when we switch.
Not IT, but my fortune 500 employer has been on MS365 since my day one. Judging by the issues we fight with every day with those products, may God help you.
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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.
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.
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Is there a windows 11 update that doesnt break everything?
Breaking onedrive? I'm confused. It's like that thing in Southpark "How do you kill that which has no life?"
Things can always get more broken. That's where mortals have an advantage; you can't get any deader.
No, but you can rack up illnesses…to a point.
I dusted off my 14 year old gaming pc, wiped windows 10 off it and installed Linux .int and hadn't looked back. Glad my PC wasn't eligible for a windows 11 upgrade...
I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
Best we can do is remind you later.
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I have to use cloud streaming for gaming, Shadow specifically (because it's the only one that can do mods, emulation and (though not specifically allowed but you gotta be a real idiot to get caught) pirating). While you can run it on most things (Linux and Android for me) the cloud computer is only Windows, and while I absolutely do not want to give any props or positive anything to Microsoft, I've had none of the issues with Win11 that have been reported throughout the years. This means nothing, obviously, as it's only a subjective experience and these things wouldn't be reported if they weren't real problems. I've just been surprised over and over that I've had absolutely no sign of anything I've seen so much about. No matter my experience though, fuck microslop.
My work laptop has windows 11, and for some reason I keep losing my mouse pointer. I’ll boot it up and there will just be no cursor. I can reset my graphics driver (which is what googling suggests), enable and disable my mouse in the hardware manager, tweak all kinds of mouse settings - and nothing. Sometimes opening a pdf in the edge browser brings it back, but it can still disappear afterwords.
Also, pulling up the menu to print something can take several minutes. If I need to change printers on that menu, another several minutes. Sometimes, it’ll just crash the entire program I am trying to print from. It’ll also just ignore some settings occasionally - things like landscape versus portrait.
The search feature in explorer is also absolutely broken. You can type in the exact file name of something and it’ll find everything but that file. Even the “recent files” section is broken.
I don’t understand how anyone at Microsoft thinks Windows 11 is an acceptable product. Do they not use it?
they dont, most of them use macs 😪😪
Love that my work laptop had a forced rollout to Win 11. Excuse to have a break when it breaks.
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Clickbait and misleading. Nothing “broke”. The recycling bin works just fine, the name of the file in the confirm delete popup is just displayed wrong.
It isn't the details or severity of the break that matters.
It's that the quality control process is SUPPOSED to catch that, and whatever sorry excuse for a process they're using now ALLOWED a break that was obvious, visible, and repeatable, inside a critical, core function of the operating system, to make it to the end users, something that should trigger as an immediate, flashing warning light. That means the entire quality control process at the very least is SEVERELY compromised and unreliable, and there could very easily be MUCH more severe vulnerabilities and bugs hiding underneath that AREN'T immediately visible. To anyone who has done any professional development for non-disposable code bases, this isn't a whisper of a problem - it's an air horn.
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So, all in all... A relatively decent Windows update compared to the average?
.. and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux ..
Well, not mine.
Damn, wish my Windows 10 got updates.
/s
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.
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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.
Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft.
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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.
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Fedora KDE. Looks better. Runs better. Never going back.
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