Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me constantly, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.
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I mean, you can't really blame this one on AI outlook has been crap for decades.
Join us! I switched to Mint about 8 months back and I have noticeably fewer regular issues than when I was on Windows.
I'm so glad I get to enjoy Linux every single day.
My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won't boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft's bullshit, I'm tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good
Do it. Enjoy the new freedom.
I tried to rollback this update and either somehow did something incredibly wrong, or windows decided to bug out. It slowed the PC horribly, and I had to reinstall windows 11. Such a pain
FUCK that better not be what happened to my computer.
One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it's OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it's OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.
Trust but verify.
Applies to so, so many scenarios these days.
My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!
You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.
Even though I'm a Pop user, I put her on Mint Cinnamon because the interface is very Windows like.
Such a wholesome story!
Thanks for sharing.
It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad
It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.
Except for people who are less tech savvy and don't have a desire to tinker. Windows has been the standard for so long that many people don't have knowledge outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Linux is best for those who want to dig into computers.
Or super casual users. All my dad ever use is Thunderbird and Chrome. I'm too lazy to get him to use Firefox, but at least I've got him on Mint for I don't know how many years now.
A lot of beginner distros really do not at all require tinkering.
Desktop computers are the one and only one space where Linux doesn't utterly dominate as the kernel of choice. Supercomputers, servers, embedded devices, basically all Linux. In the mobile space, Apple and Android are a duopoly, Microsoft repeatedly tried and failed to enter that market. Microsoft managed to secure a de facto monopoly on the desktop, kept Macintosh like a pet to ward off actual monopoly lawsuits, and has spent the last 20 years just making their product worse for the user in order to wring another pint of blood out of the same moldy old turnip.
Gotta get that infinite growth. Enshittification is just the last stage.
I'm a tech worker and know my way around Linux but I use productivity software / VR (with NVIDIA) at home and don't want to deal with getting all of that stuff working again.
Win10 EOL is pushing me there and all of my problems would go away if more people switched but I just want to be a simple user in my downtime.
It's gotten wayyyy better in that regard though. It's more a matter of what people are used to and being resistant to change, than a lack of tech savvy-ness.
I think it has a target audience that doesn't include everyone. It is primarily for those who want to be in control of there computing.
The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn't worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.
Microsoft can't force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I'm sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.
Fuck windows. I got fed up of their constant monitoring. I am glad to be rid of it. They still have a lot of my data, sadly, but nothing spicy, and given their incompetence they will probably lose it all by the time any buyer wants it.
.... always was.
Not really
It got a lot of people excited about computers back when the customer was the user
I went into linux mint. I am certain, CERTAIN, that a windows 10 update probably caused a fundamental HD failure on my old computer. I have hard drives much older and more used than the one I had, yet that HD, which was the main HD I had started to fail. It gave enough life for me to back it up into a massive 14TB backup drive (I keep that one unplugged when not in use) so I didn't lose any data.
But HD failures are rare for me. I am fucking glad I was able to save the data. I need to put that drive to some old fashion electronic recycling.
How were you certain? Drives fail all the time.
I first used an early gen/model ssd on linux, it promptly died due to constant log writes. oops.
then I used platter until nvme came out.
then I 'needed' (forced to use specific config) windows for work so I set up a second computer.
from then to now I've had 4 ssd and 1 platter death under windows and nothing with linux even constantly distrohopping on the linux drive. not including the shared usb drives at least.
"Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off... some day... we guess..."
It's paying off for the shareholders RIGHT NOW. In the future it's probably gonna bite them in the but, but who cares? Profits now > profits later.
This is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game once the technology reaches fruition, This wouldn't work for some big monolithic company like linux.
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I fully switched to Linux this year: it's nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.
AI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.
Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.
People witch hunting Phison too.
I didn't think a lot of drives were actually permanently borked, were they?
I'll pitch in my anecdote: I updated to Windows 11 3878, everything was fine. Downloaded Helldivers onto my gaming drive overnight, and woke up in the morning seeing that the SSD was not being detected (WD Black NVME, no heatsink). Pulled it out, put it in another PC, saw that it was being detected, so I rolled back the Windows update because that's the only other thing that had changed. Drive works fine again.
SOMETHING definitely happened, but I think it's waaaaaaay over-reported tbh.
Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures were everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.
Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.
(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)
Lemmy loves Linux and rightly so, but it hates Windows even more.
Example, this is a no-subject memes community, and you'll find plenty of anti-Windows stuff here. And the actual linuxmemes community sometimes feels like it could be renamed to hatewindowsmemes.
Not surprising, the same way /r/atheism was, for a while at least, more like /r/antichristianity. Part of the identity is opposition to “the enemy.”
Personally I think that part of the identity is unhelpful, and focus is better put on the identity being about what makes it the better choice. Like Dems losing in 2016 and 2024 because a good chunk of their messaging was “look how bad Trump is,” which only served to broadcast Trump even more.
(That’s not to say that complaints aren’t valid, it’s just a poor way to structure an identity.)
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I heard too many stories about people’s hard drives failing after the update for the news to be false. As far as I know, the issue isn’t easily reproducible though.
Stories without data are what.
Data.
I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I'd put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).
The articles for windows 10 aren't going to be great either once the security updates stop
Edit I can't read you're using the longer supported version
Windows 10 IoT LTSC has security updates until 2032.
Edit: I also just saw your edit.
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