Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

Post by edg5000 » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 4:14 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #7

I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got an HP laptop for running the print studio since the amount of hardware I could get for less than $1000 was hard to ignore. However, things like this, and other weird issues (my fonts have gone all wonky a couple of times after random updates) make me want to sw…

Post by blibble » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 4:21 AM UTC

brian-armstrong wrote: post #12

blibble wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just delete the service entirely, same with defender it's great my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP if it gets hacked: I simply don't care

You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.

Post by jmward01 » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

kyriakos wrote: post #8

jampa wrote: post #5

I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly. Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows, and the OS is the thing that gets you to the thing you want to do. I saw 2 instances of people getting "updating windows" in their personal laptops when they tried to present something and l…

If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

Post by wileydragonfly » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 4:31 AM UTC

jmward01 wrote: post #15

kyriakos wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

I am personally just a lurker. Windows used to be my only OS for a -very- long time (DOS 2.x, yes 2, was my first MS OS). Now I click on these just to see how far it has fallen. It is like that friend you drifted away from and now you look at their FB posts now and again to watch as they get crazier and crazier.

Post by wileydragonfly » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 4:33 AM UTC

edg5000 wrote: post #11

bdcravens wrote: post #7

I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got an HP laptop for running the print studio since the amount of hardware I could get for less than $1000 was hard to ignore. However, things like this, and other weird issues (my fonts have gone all wonky a couple of times after random updates) make me want to sw…

> the software support for what I need is much better in the Windows world Please elaborate; can you name a few tools and what you use them for? Just curious.