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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 CamperBob2 »

pilif wrote: post #9
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 should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem

Not being an incompetent or inexperienced Windows user, I'm vanishingly unlikely to be infected by a bot network trojan... and if that does happen, rest assured, I'll notice it.

Windows Update, on the other hand, is part of my threat model.

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

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Post by jayGlow »

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.

sometimes games just won't work on Linux, doom the dark ages refuses to work on Linux for me.

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

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Post by kstrauser »

wileydragonfly wrote: post #19
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.

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Not the person you replied to, but I’ll go. Try experimenting with ham radio on anything but Windows. As far as I can tell, they revoke your Apple developer’s license and confiscate your Linux install disks when you start selling radio hardware.

That’s not completely true. There’s good Linux and Mac software for lots of things. But approximately 100% of radio manufacturers ship Windows software. Far fewer support anything else.

I bought a new radio at Christmas. Before buying it, I ruled out alternatives that didn’t have 1st party or good 3rd party support. It’s like trying to buy a scanner in 2003.

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

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Post by cjbgkagh »

wileydragonfly wrote: post #17
jmward01 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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No

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

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Post by fh973 »

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.

VR?

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

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Post by koakuma-chan »

blibble wrote: post #3
ronsor wrote: post #2

I've got to stop doing Windows Updates

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 can't do that. Eventually, something will stop working because it requires a certain Windows update.

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

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Post by commandersaki »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #22

And noone asks why Windows looks, feels and operates the way it is. Isn't it strange that a megacorp creates these watermelon headed monstrosities and it gets worse after each iteration?

Hasn't the answer always been legacy support.

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

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Post by JaggerFoo »

You mean the one I just downloaded and updated my laptop with? It installed OK.

I usually use MacOS and Linux, it's just that some software is Windows only, and I run MacOS on Apple Silicon - the windows program I needed only uses x86-64 architecture, so I can't use parallels (AFAIK).

I'm kind of hoping I get an update that bricks my laptop so I can install Debian over this MS Windows hellscape and run windows on a VM when needed. I may do it anyways after I get fed up with nagging MS messages and workarounds.

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

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Post by bdcravens »

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.

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.
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