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> We’ve also made changes to the Power menu so you’ll always see the standard Restart and Shut down options without having to install a pending update first. You decide when updates happen, not the other way around. Great! We've progressed back to Windows XP of 22 years ago.
> You decide when updates happen, not the other way around. What's the other way around? "Updates decide when you happen"? Sounds like part of a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
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So I moved from Win 11 to Fedora Workstation some months back. I dual-booted back into Windows once or twice to check something, to upgrade my audio receiver with a serial port, that sort of stuff. Everyone talks about execs monitoring metrics. What sort of metric would I have registered as? You see a desktop that's on 24/7 suddenly going offline. There's no way these people find out indirectly that I'm now using Lin…
> What sort of metric would I have registered as? Monthly average user. Uptime for Win 11. Uptime not counting screensaver. Uptime for non-enterprise consumer. If you were a Win 11 enterprise user, then Uptime for enterprise users. Unique hardware indicators - number of distinct PCs in Win 11 ecosystem, separated from new activations. And I'm sure a few others that I haven't thought of. Declining stats on these measu…
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They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better. To quote CS Lewis: >Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torme…
CS Lewis: a prolific author of fantasy, science fiction, and Christian apologetics
> Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Said by a monster himself, but doesn't make it any less true.
I literraly can’t name one feature since Windows 7 what was worth it, even on the contrary: every update made the system worse. I had to restore Notepad, Calculator and Paint from Windows 7. What the hell Microsoft?
So, to sum it up: DirectX 12, better SSD support, HDR, restoring window layout when reconnecting monitors, WPA3, DNS over HTTPS, WSL2, Windows Sandbox, per monitor DPI scaling, QUIC, dark mode/tabs/previous session/better encoding in Notepad, Windows Terminal. All these sound really nice to be honest. The things I want my OS to get. The only problem is: these are the improvements what this OS got in the last 20 years…
I can’t tell if this is serious or sarcasm.
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>It’ll be running Ubuntu. I’m done. https://status.canonical.com/ You're in for a bad time. It's been three days and they still can't get updates to work. Get Debian if you must. Use something sane like Guix and OpenBSD if you can.
To be fair, they're allegedly experiencing under attack by the Iranian government. I doubt Guix or OpenBSD would be able to sustain service under a similar attack, though granted there's a reason Cannonical is the target and not OpenBSD. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructu...
So OpenBSD would probably be able to sustain service at least in terms of being able to download updates.
I literraly can’t name one feature since Windows 7 what was worth it, even on the contrary: every update made the system worse. I had to restore Notepad, Calculator and Paint from Windows 7. What the hell Microsoft?
Snipping tool.
Some WINKEY+arrows combos for arranging windows.
The new terminal.
> Second, a shared sense of pride. We want to be proud of what we build... Yep, that's marketing. You don't care about your users.
Or perhaps this should be read as proud of the whole Windows up until this time - if so, then there's even less to be proud of.
I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account. Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password becaus…
woulda been nice to know before hand that it was going to do that, so i could make sure those other accounts werent so reliant on that finger reader working
With Windows Update what I really want is control over reboot. Don't automatically reboot, instead let me save documents, close applications and reboot manually. "Pausing" updates doesn't do that, and could be dangerous as urgent security updates are delayed. With AI features, the most annoying thing has to be the Copilot key on my laptop keyboard. If you accidentally hit it it opens a Copilot window, interrupting yo…
Pausing, postponing isn't a solution here.