I have no faith in Microsoft as a company anymore.
Hey Copilot. Users are reporting errors with the latest patch we released. Among them are a problem with RDP credential prompts, hanging/not completing shutdown and long black screens on boot.
Oh, you’re right. That was my mistake. Let me develop, compile and deploy a new set of patches for you!
Thinking…
Changing shutdown.c… Changing random file.c… Introducing more bugs for a future fix…
Same, but I still enjoy using Windows. I have 30 years of experience with it, and I have a Windows 11 machine… at work. I do stuff with Windows that make my coworkers think I’m a wizard. I’m not trying to brag about being special in a Technology community. Rather, the bar is pretty low. Like when my boss says he has two monitors and that makes him special, I tell him I have four. He taps my one and says no, you have one. I say, come round and watch this. Hold CTRL and WIN and tap left and right. I have four desktops. Super easy, hit Win+Tab or the new task view/switch icon (white square, black square icon) and add a desktop from the bottom. Lots of other shit I do. Word spreads. IT guy’s busy (or can’t be arsed to show them how to do something)? They come to me. My boss thinks I’m wasting time and gives me more work, but I have all kinds of shortcuts set up. (No AI/Copilot as that requires a Microsoft account, and I don’t get one with work and I’m not using my personal one. I could make a dummy one just for work, but I’m not poking that bear.)
At home though, I use Macs. I’m relatively new to Mac, and I’m sure they’ve had problems like Windows has had lately, in the past, but the biggest complaint seems to be “Liquid Glass is ugly.” I don’t really care about the theme. It’s a fucking theme. Does the shit work like I need? Yes. I don’t care what it looks like, though I do fancy a dark theme. Easier on my eyes. But real talk, macOS window snapping sucks compared to Windows. Microsoft figured that shit out with Windows 7. And it’s been solid since. We can use a free app called Rectangle to get up to Windows level and a few other tricks, but I don’t need it. The system snapping is good enough for me. Finder is also not quite as good as Windows Explorer. They both have all the features I need, but Finder is kinda like the dumb little brother of Windows Explorer. I could replace it with a file manager that beats both of them, but default is good enough. The only one I really know is Directory Opus, which I used on the Amiga (showing my age here), but I just checked, they’re Windows only now.
For people who still have machines that run Windows (mine died, which is why I have Macs now, I didn’t like what the PC market looked like and Apple Silicon was in its second generation (M2 Pro on the desk, M2 base on the MacBook) and seemed like a better fit for me), I’d recommend some flavour of Linux. Mint is a great place to start if you’re familiar with the look and feel of Windows. If you’re sick of Windows, but you want something commercially available (you buy it and become their customer) and supported by the company, Macs are $500 now, and that’s for the M4, two generations ahead of mine. Though, I’d recommend springing for more storage. 256GB doesn’t feel like enough. M4 Pro will get you more cores, but then you’re pushing $1000 and you can probably do better with Windows/Intel or AMD, unless you really just want to avoid Windows altogether. Still, find a machine without an OS and stick Linux on it. At that price point it just makes a little more sense.
Another confirmed bug caused some systems to fail to shut down properly after installing the update. According to Microsoft, a separate fix has been issued to resolve the shutdown issue on certain Windows 11 builds.
So they fixed it a month ago after breaking it years ago and almost immediately break it again? lol
Apparently they don’t even test their updates anymore before to deploy them.
They stopped around 2018 i believe when they fired almost all the QAs that they had
Yes I heard that about hardware QA. This is pathetic to see Microsoft digging his own grave.
Windows Update: stop what you’re doing its time to test my latest bugs
Hey Microsoft, unrelated question, how’s that “70% AI written code” directive working out?
The real fix was not using Win11 all along.
The real fix is running Linux.
In the last year, I’ve found that on my main machine, fedora is FINE.
I mostly surf, I’m not a gamer, and for me Linux ticks the boxes I need
YMMV you should do you; but my daily driver as a Linux box has been flawless
Fedora (like pretty much any distribution) runs most games just fine.
The thing is, I game. And I’ve found CachyOS to be performing better on games than Windows. In fact, I’m running Expedition 33 with forced FSR4 on a Navi 2 GPU (which isn’t supposed to support FSR4) and it performs better than with FSR3 on Windows. That honestly surprised me. Unfortunate that FSR is becoming a requirement for so many modern games (thanks UE5). And then there’s anticheat…
I might give catchyOS a try. I’ve been in bazzite for almost a year and haven’t had any issues.
But wait… If you haven’t had any issues, why bother trying something else?
That’s kinda where I’m at. Everyone says CatchyOS, CatchyOS, it’s smoother, stable, no issues. And I’m here on bazzite with all the same pros and cons list without seeing a different, I figured id try it myself since all the cons people seem to have on bazzite I haven’t had.
I’d say, don’t bother. For me, I was already on Arch, as I’ve been for years, so switching package repositories isn’t a big deal and I could just as easily switch back. So when I noticed some minor performance issues with Arkham Knight on base arch, I thought “why not”. There’s also the fact that Bazzite can’t work for me because of its immutable nature. If you’re happy with how things are going right now, I don’t think there’s a reason to switch. Of course, there’s always the “why not” factor for everyone :)
That’s a fair point. I’m mostly curious because installing flatpacks are just a bit of pain. I have to finesse it using the terminal. unlike Mint, where I can click it like a windows .exe and it installs. The other option is trying out Manjaro since that’s based off Arch and probably the closest to SteamOS in terms of distro.
To clarify, I use cachyOS packages on arch. So, I can’t give a review of the distro itself. But the packages do work really well for gaming, especially their kernel and their proton variant. I use GNOME and force Proton to use Wayland and FSR4. So far, so good.
Commenting mostly to agree that Linux is great and add that I’m able to play all my games on Linux without major issues and I don’t have Windows bloating the machine or interrupting my gameplay. Proton has really helped Linux gaming and made it trivially easy in most cases to get things to work right.
All I want for Xmas 2025 is for Autodesk to support Linux.
Yeah, the sad reality is that there are some critical pieces of software that just outright refuse to support other OSes. Personally, I’m forced to use Macs at work because QLab is the industry standard for my line of work, and that software is only available on Mac.
My condolences to you. At least it’s only at work.
Windows
11Preach! (づ￣ ³￣)づ
It sounds like you will have a more stable experience on Windows 10 where they only release security fixes.
Or even better, just run Linux and avoid Microsoft entirely
I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.
Some older games that I still play regularly (Simcity 4 with heavy modding) also have problems when running Wine.
That being said, I will probably try dual booting when I get a new laptop, I am done with US platforms (this covers Android too).
When you get a new laptop, cut the old one off from the internet, slap win 7 on it and use it for retro games.
Try steam/proton instead of Wine
https://www.protondb.com/app/24780
ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.
Yeah, mods on proton get weird sometimes, especially if they require things like Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages/runtimes. I think ProtonTricks allows you to install those directly in the prefix, but I personally haven’t had any success with that. Every time I try something that involves stuff like that, I end up getting white screens, black screens, or just full CTDs.
Thanks copie.
