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

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

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Post by edg5000 »

bdcravens wrote: post #30
edg5000 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

A number of the Autodesk tools and Solidworks, for modeling. Slicers can use APIs native to Windows to perform model repairs. Bambu Lab's farm manager only runs on Windows.

Not sure about Autodesk, but have you tried FreeCAD? I own a perpetual SolidWorks license but haven't even activated it. Used it quite lot on another license but I just prefer FreeCAD so much. It does choke on high primitive counts though. Probably has worse FEA (invokes external simulation tools) but that is an assumption, never did FEA. Mostly did parametric CAD, not much technical drawings either, can't say much about that.

For slicers I use PrusaSlicer on Linux (don't have a Prusa; it's really good for generic slicing). But I can see how Bambu stuff could be an issue if it's Win only and not Wineable.

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

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Post by michaelmrose »

jackblemming wrote: post #35

How is this not considered destruction of property? How about big tech plays by the same rules as everyone else?

Because destruction of property is when you destroy property and windows can be reinstalled and even preserve the prior installations files.

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

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Post by kshri24 »

Microsoft needs to go back to basics and keep the OS dead simple. No AI cruft. AI is good only for certain categories and specific ways of integration. It falls apart quickly if you do not know how to glue things together properly and just use it in anything and everything (for example: adding AI to Notepad was the stupidest thing Microsoft could do).

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

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Post by __del__ »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #38

> “ Microsoft has received a limited number…” I always find this wording funny; the “limited” conveys no information but downplays the issue in a non-specific way. I wish we could have standardized writing guidelines for press reports, to call out such weasel words

we'll be working on that very strongly in the next period of time

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

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Post by einr »

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.

It's more like "nobody cares about Windows" as in: no one is impressed that you added Copilot into Notepad, no one wants you to move the cheese, they just want to get on with their actual work without being interrupted by "good things coming your way" which is inevitably just more annoyance, more bugs, more Copilot buttons.

Most people would probably have preferred if Windows had zero feature updates* since Windows 7, just security patches.

* Well, OK, fine. Task Manager is better now, I'll grant them that one.

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

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Post by heroprotagonist »

nsoonhui wrote: post #16

Last Thursday windows 11 forced this update on my Acer machine. It caused me BSOD: inaccessible boot device, so I had to reformat my machine to get Windows running again. So I am now very wary of this Out of Band Update[0], especially when it's not mentioned whether the latest update solve my issue or not. I don't know the same problem is still there, or whether this update makes the problem any better or worse. 0: h…

Ugh. I wondered what that was. I had to reformat due to inaccessible boot device as well, I thought the SSD had gone bad.

But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.

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

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Post by hagbard_c »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #37
bdcravens wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A number of the Autodesk tools and Solidworks, for modeling. Slicers can use APIs native to Windows to perform model repairs. Bambu Lab's farm manager only runs on Windows.

The Creality one runs decent on Mac and Windows, sadly on Linux its a nightmare, and technically why I ditched Ubuntu / popOS for Arch Linux, but I can't help but still feel it runs a little weirder + its out of date compared to Mac and Windows versions. My buddy used to use Orca slicer on my printer, that one iirc should run on Mac too, but I havent tried it.

SuperSlicer, PrusaSlicer and Creality Print work fine for me using Debian. Orca Slicer runs but reliably crashes when opening the preferences window, something which it has been doing for a long time according to the bug report. Cura also works fine om Debian for me. Which problems did you have running any of these?

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

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Post by nsoonhui »

prmoustache wrote: post #45
nsoonhui wrote: post #16

Last Thursday windows 11 forced this update on my Acer machine. It caused me BSOD: inaccessible boot device, so I had to reformat my machine to get Windows running again. So I am now very wary of this Out of Band Update[0], especially when it's not mentioned whether the latest update solve my issue or not. I don't know the same problem is still there, or whether this update makes the problem any better or worse. 0: h…

> so I had to reformat my machine to get Windows running again. I can hear everyone in choir saying "but why would you do that?" If Microsoft would ever do that to me in an update, I would install an immutable Linux distro on my machine and run windows as a VM (only if I had a strong requirement for it). That way you can do snapshots you can restore from easily.

>> "but why would you do that?"

My bread and butter is Windows WPF cum AutoCAD-like application. My users are all on Windows. So I have to develop on Windows.

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