Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"

• Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I rather think you do.

  There will come a point where working around Windows quirks takes up more time than it does to simply seek and learn something else. This is organically how most people seek to find alternatives to software and begin to jump ship.

  This is why PHP, as a programming language was replaced. Despite its popularity it became increasingly inconvenient to use. As such, they created other languages to replace it. They took the time to create an entirely new development language to sidestep the inconvenience of using PHP…

  The same will eventually happen to Windows. Unquestionably.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.

    The regular computer user who just needs their apps to run won’t likely make the effort to enter an entirely new ecosystem as long as those apps run. And when they break? They’ll reinstall Windows or pay someone else to fix it.

    I love shitting on Microsoft as much as the next penguin, but they’re not idiots. Even if some of their decisions are questionable, Windows is still a major part of their business, and they won’t just let it degrade to a point where Linux converts are a significant threat to their profit.

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    • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.

      Yeah, except I’m not equating developers to end-users. I’m equating the two situations at hand. Because they’re equivalent situations…

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• lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This. 😄

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