Look at it from the flip side: Linux is so bad people would rather deal with this than deal with Linux.
Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:
… People are still using Windows?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member “I’m too old to learn a new operating system!” Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lies! Linux never has issues!
My laptop’s Linux install currently isn’t corrupt and won’t boot, honest!
Disclaimer: I actually like Linux a lot, JFC the windows hate is crazy…
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe try another distro? Mint 22.1 works just fine right out of the box, and at this point Claude provides actual support better than scouring 3 forums in case you need small tweaks. Other than some proprietary fingerprint reader I never use, every machine I’ve used it on has been fine.
You can just do a live install from USB and test it before even installing.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
many have to - work from home, have to share data and programs with other workers. There are of course ways around it but I know literally thousands of people who are supplied with a company laptop with windows on it and they have to use it…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Huh, sounds like bad security and data integrity policies from whatever company, probably not very well run places to work for.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
You realise that most companies still run on Windows don’t you? I’m in the UK and there is around zero companies that use anything else… here they got rid of Macs because of the hassle of supporting them and windows. Plenty of companies won’t let you use a Mac to work with either
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yep I do realize that.
And I still have the same opinion.
You’re in the UK, so you’re not bound by GDPR… but a whole lot of places and orgs that are bound by GDPR realize that MSFT products indeed are a joke from a data security standpoint, and are actively transitioning to linux or at the very least FOSS software.
I am in the US.
I literally used to work for MSFT, a few of their different locations around Seattle.
They are a fucking insane mess, internally, organizationally.
I worked with people, old timers who’d just casually tell me:
‘Oh yeah back before Desert Storm, I was out in Saudi Arabia flashing the BIOS of computer hardware that was bound to be installed in Saddam’s C&C and Air Defense Radar networks, some months later when time came for the air sorties, somebody else just flipped a switch and down goes all their radars!’
Aka a supply chain attack.
Aka, unless your definition of ‘data security’ is ‘the NSA has all my data’, then MSFT products are rather dubious at providing data security.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Came here to say “Well, maybe they’re corrupting your data.”
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I use “incontrol” to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well yes, but actually this is a security update
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thank god Ive got control of those too, huh? I offered you all a nice little short cut to make your lives a little easier. And instead, you all moan. Jesus christ.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
And I’m sure you’ll blame Microsoft/windows when things don’t work as expected and you get strange errors because you disabled core features using dodgy software that you don’t understand but think you don’t need them.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lol Another Reddit user, with nothing to offer but projection. Being in the game 20+ years, matey. If theres problems, I have skills to solve them. Just because you dont know your arse from your elbow, doesnt mean everyone else is the same. Go cry about MS’s spyware some place else.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
🤣 literally everything you said is wrong but good try I guess. Only 20+ years? Amateur.
You’re the one crying about their “spyware”, not me. How do you not see that?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.
Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It’s not even worth mentioning. It’s not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they’ll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it’s not a big issue. That’s this. That’s this exact thing.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Wow, with a mentality like that, you’re a perfect fit for medical school.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
First of all, false equivalency. Second, this isn’t new and didn’t just start happening again. Its never stopped happening. Windows update is fucking atrocious. Its always been atrocious. Its the single worst part about using windows for the vast majority of users.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
And you’re a perfect fit for an arts degree with how dumb that equivalency is.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
And you’re about as dense as neutronium if you don’t get it.