So, microsoft, how's that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
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So, microsoft, how's that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
Not really windows related but my work wonders why as an IT guy I think it’s a bad idea to force updates the day they come out.
Yeah. My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back. The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute. What an OS.
Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it's always unmistakably Adobe's fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
What software are we talking about here? There is no way Acrobat takes up that much space. Photoshop might though.
Whatever the reader is called now. It's a known "feature". They use Windows Installer patch system to update the application, but for some reason if it fails to update, it just re-downloads the patch without removing the failed ones. Or at least that's my understanding. Allegedly (according to Adobe at least) it's a rare bug, but I've had over a dozen machines from end users where this caused C partition to run full and slow down/freeze/crash the system. And I'm being serious when I say some machines regained over 30GB of space after uninstalling the reader.
Is there a windows 11 update that doesnt break everything?
Breaking onedrive? I'm confused. It's like that thing in Southpark "How do you kill that which has no life?"
Things can always get more broken. That's where mortals have an advantage; you can't get any deader.
No, but you can rack up illnesses…to a point.

Ironically people who "btw I use Arch" have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol
This was just this week
precious arch user repository
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.
Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.
Maybe so. I use cachy just for the record, so I'm not piling on with linux hate. I'm just enjoying the madness of it all. :)
CachyOS not only is Arch, it uses packages from AUR out of the box
Crazy self own my guy
FYI, CachyOS is Arch based. It has access to the AUR. If you weren't effected, that proves the point.
The AUR is a repository of last resort. It's useful, but you should be careful. That's true even before this even. It's a repository made by users, and is not verified.
I use Bazzite btw
I don't use arch btw (I'm a Fedora stan)
samesies! fist bump
Just amazing work coming out of the slopShop recently.
.. and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux ..
I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
No issues across 400+ I manage.
I manage 40 and we had 2 issues that got resolved by uninstalling a different update.
Uninstalling it inexplicably nuked that machine's print drivers and I had to reinstall those lol
MS universal print.
How did you uninstall a different update? They’re cumulative.
Same. Another overblown report.
According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces the names of deleted files with internal Recycle Bin filenames in specific situations. When permanently deleting a single file from the Recycle Bin, the confirmation dialog displays a cryptic internal filename, such as $Rxxxxx.ext, instead of the original filename, such as realfilename.txt.
Ahh yes, Microsoft lying about how bad Microsoft are again. \s
The horrors!
I don't know if it is this one, but I have been on a number of PC's that have been fked by updates recently
Clickbait and misleading. Nothing “broke”. The recycling bin works just fine, the name of the file in the confirm delete popup is just displayed wrong.
It isn't the details or severity of the break that matters.
It's that the quality control process is SUPPOSED to catch that, and whatever sorry excuse for a process they're using now ALLOWED a break that was obvious, visible, and repeatable, inside a critical, core function of the operating system, to make it to the end users, something that should trigger as an immediate, flashing warning light. That means the entire quality control process at the very least is SEVERELY compromised and unreliable, and there could very easily be MUCH more severe vulnerabilities and bugs hiding underneath that AREN'T immediately visible. To anyone who has done any professional development for non-disposable code bases, this isn't a whisper of a problem - it's an air horn.
Lol, yeah that's definitely broken
What exactly is “broken” about the recycling bin because of this?
Does the recycling bin still work?
Does the right file get deleted?
You’ve got a strange definition of broken.
Does the right file get deleted?
I literally do not know because the dialog box might be wrong
The answer is yes. It does.
Well I hope you're right, otherwise the wrong file will be gone forever.
Seems to be only one way to find out as well.
it defeats the purpose of a confirm dialogue if it doesn't correctly tell you what you're confirming...
No it doesn’t. You still have to click delete on the file that you want to delete. Confirm boxes don’t even need to show the name of the file you’re deleting, just confirm if you want to delete it. When you empty the recycle bin it doesn’t ask you if you’re sure you’d like to delete x, y, and z file names, for example.
Weird. Monthly updates used to be pretty harmless with a bunch of little bug fixes that really only affected a few people. Then AI came out, and in the past 6 months or so every patch Tuesday has been a complete disaster. It's almost as if they laid off a bunch of engineers and now have the remaining ones just vibe coding shit while using the same LLM to do code review and everything is going to hell. Not that it was a phenomenal product to begin with, but when you have engineers vibe coding patches for such a delecate platform, it's going to end in disaster.
Are you suggesting the patches are fixing issues the AI caused? If so, that isn't what's happening. AI is finding vulnerabilities from old human written code at a pace unlike anything before. Not because humans couldn't technically find them, it's just that they never did. That isn't me marketing or shelling out for an AI company, there are many different models accomplishing the same thing, and more to come. It's not just with Microsoft, though Microsoft has a lot of vulnerabilities to find. AI is causing chaos for just about every major tech company with all the vulnerabilities being found. And they have to find and patch them before someone else uses the AI to find and abuse the vulnerabilities first. The long standing match of cat and mouse is much faster than it once was
This is actually a very valid take, and I didn't think of it this way. Man, what a complicated landscape AI has made. Pandora's box certainly has been opened.
I dual boot Linux and Windows and it's really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.
It's so jarring to go into Windows.
I kept windows on my machine just in case too but I haven't needed it for at least 6 months now. I don't depend on any crazy proprietary software for my work and most Steam games work just fine so I'm thinking of getting rid of it altogether.
didn't notice tbf. because i haven't used this goblinshit for months.
goblinshit
My new favorite descriptor. Nice job!
I have to use cloud streaming for gaming, Shadow specifically (because it's the only one that can do mods, emulation and (though not specifically allowed but you gotta be a real idiot to get caught) pirating). While you can run it on most things (Linux and Android for me) the cloud computer is only Windows, and while I absolutely do not want to give any props or positive anything to Microsoft, I've had none of the issues with Win11 that have been reported throughout the years. This means nothing, obviously, as it's only a subjective experience and these things wouldn't be reported if they weren't real problems. I've just been surprised over and over that I've had absolutely no sign of anything I've seen so much about. No matter my experience though, fuck microslop.
I see it’s the “shit on windows” time of the month again