While it's heartening to see that Microsoft has significantly increased its Windows development speed and is seemingly listening to customer feedback, a string of bugs after a major feature update are still common.
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Jabberwocky79 Wow, thanks Microslop – at least there's hope that my GPU crashes will be resolved. :rolleyes: Reply
S58_is_the_goat Some of the new updates also bork hp and Lenovo laptops… keep it classy Microsoft 🙄 Reply
palladin9479 Oh gee more Microslop AI created updates that break everything. This is why I'm staying on Windows 10 until MS starts working on 12 and 11 stops getting broken. Reply
cknobman palladin9479 said: Oh gee more Microslop AI created updates that break everything. This is why I'm staying on Windows 10 until MS starts working on 12 and 11 stops getting broken. Have you tried Linux? I finally made the move a few months ago and have not looked back. Have not run across a scenario yet that requires me going back to Windows. Reply
TechieTwo Another day in the sewer that is Microsucks. These aren't defects, they are benefits… 🙁 Reply
BillyBuerger cknobman said: Have you tried Linux? I finally made the move a few months ago and have not looked back. Have not run across a scenario yet that requires me going back to Windows. I finally switched to Kubuntu this year for my personal PC and overall it's been great. Still spend a lot of time on Windows as that's what all of my work systems are using. So I still have to be aware of the crap. But at least I have one foot out of the Microsoft cage. It's not that I haven't had issues with Linux. I was originally using Zorin which has it's nice points. But Gnome was giving me too many issues. KDE overall works more like I want. Not that it doesn't have it's own issues but they're pretty minor and I haven't felt the need to adjust anything for some time now. Reply
Vicecrow I have the license of windows 10 and 11 pro… But for not loose my mind I use the LTSC version of it. Microslop don't touch too much the LTSC version. And don't make these updates to kill your machine. Works with no key. after I get the watermark I just format again and again. the trial works for 90 days. To config the machine loose two hours, a broken update loose a week Reply
EzzyB I'm not terribly surprised. If you want something to blame, blame AI. Apparently it's pretty good a hacking (and not just Microsoft, as we've seen). In the last 3 months Microsoft has patched over 2000 vulnerabilities in Windows. That's actually friggin heroic. You also can't issue that many software fixes without breaking something . Issue 2k fixes to over a billion machines? It's amazing any of this works. Reply
ezst036 palladin9479 said: Oh gee more Microslop AI created updates that break everything. This is why I'm staying on Windows 10 until MS starts working on 12 and 11 stops getting broken. Windows 12 will be worse – Microsoft has pretty much stated the future is Agentic OS. That means more slop for as far as the eye can see. Slop everywhere. Reply
King_V Let's not forget, from back in April: Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI Fun times. Reply
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