Windows 11 hasn't been released yet right?
Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
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Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#32For what it’s worth, the web has figured out ad serving. With stuff like SafeFrame there is decent sandboxing and exception handling. I’ve really not seen any ad serving outside of web and app sdks that doesn’t fail miserably on a technical level.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I completed Fallout 3 a few months ago on Ubuntu 20 under Proton (and Fallout: New Vegas). Try using Lutris's implementation of wine ± proton -- my GOG copy "just worked", much to my surprise. Including the mods, and mod managers! If you continue to have trouble, drop me an email and I'll give you my configuration. I very much second your sentiment about proton being "good enough". It's amazing! I have a less than st…
There's only one ThinkPad with Ryzen that comes preloaded with Linux last I checked, but I'm hoping more come out soon since I really like ThinkPads. Either way, ThinkPads are worth a look since they play well with Linux, whether they come with Linux preloaded or not. I'm also in the market (to replace my MacBook-esque XPS 13 Developer Edition), so if someone wants to suggest me a (other than ThinkPads) 13-14 inch la…
The moves towards getting Ubuntu onto an M1 appear to be moving along quite nicely if you are patient and Apple hardware is of interest.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#34Windows is probably the most important piece of software in the entire world, yet Microsoft does not treat it like the most important piece of software in the entire world. They have no sense of responsibility about foisting this garbage onto billions of users.
I've been a lifelong Windows user, but I've come to feel that Windows needs to be completely replaced. We simply cannot trust Microsoft with mission-critical software any longer.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#35To clarify, though, this is just an issue for people who are deliberately getting preview builds (aka beta testers), correct? The article feels pretty click-baity with that critical detail not part of the title.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's such a shame too. Windows 10 is a great modern OS that everyone expected to last and be built upon, but they just had to go and push out a new "modernized" version and fill it up with ads. I wonder what you pay to be in the Windows 10 Pro start menu and if it's really worth selling out their professional userbase.
> Windows 10 is a great modern OS I’m an infrequent user of it but have a starkly different opinion. It feels like a layer on top archeology and the number of places you have to go to find settings and controls is unhelpful.
I’m convinced that 80% of the hatred of modern Windows could easily have been avoided if they just made both settings areas have, you know, all settings.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#37It's so mind boggling to me that we're okay with this level of uncertainty about the systems we rely on every day. I run LTSC with updates disabled because the idea that something that's working one day would stop working the next drives me up the wall. I have a linux phone (which is awful) because at least when that breaks it's my fault and I can always just put it back into a known working state. I hate how my rela…
> we're okay with this level of uncertainty
no, you are not the customer.. executive management, legal and finance are the target customer
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#38I'm also a big fan of the weather widget they tried to force on everyone's start bar.
I'm also a big fan of how "one drive" is now critical functionality, and windows needs to persistently notify me if I'm not logged into it.
I'm also a big fan of how it's 2021, and their bloated OS still takes like ten minutes to truly boot up all the way.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#39To clarify, though, this is just an issue for people who are deliberately getting preview builds (aka beta testers), correct? The article feels pretty click-baity with that critical detail not part of the title.
Correct, this is a beta build.
With that said, I get that things go bad in betas - this is the point of a beta release - but this still feels egregiously bad. It also highlights the direction Windows is going, which is cause for criticism even if this worked perfectly.
Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
#40Windows is probably the most important piece of software in the entire world, yet Microsoft does not treat it like the most important piece of software in the entire world. They have no sense of responsibility about foisting this garbage onto billions of users. I've been a lifelong Windows user, but I've come to feel that Windows needs to be completely replaced. We simply cannot trust Microsoft with mission-critical…
You do realize this issue was on Windows 11, an unreleased operating system correct? I'm not saying Windows 10 hasn't had its share of critical issues, but I can't remember the last time Microsoft released widely a show-stopping bug to the LTS branch of Windows (that is, the branch you'd be using for "mission-critical" applications).