Glad to see that Microsoft is making Windows more and more similar to Linux by every passing day :)
You mean 90's Linux?
Hey! Some of us still use Linux the old "hacker command line" way
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
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Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#52Had the journalist tryied Linux, would have known that it gives much better error messages than some random looking number.
It literally gave the wrong error message?
> Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error.
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#53> Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux? Hmm
Yup. These are the people society put in charge with keeping us informed. They'll probably need to take jobs are janitors once ai replaces them, as they are prime candidates given how unreliable their writing is.
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#54When installing the update, some users are finding themselves faced with an 0x80070643 error, a generic failure message. Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error. Error in the error code code is giving the wrong error code for the error. I'm curious how often the error code code needs touching that there is an error in there t…
This is why I am extra vigilant, pendantic and strict when writing or reviewing code that handles exception and error paths. More than happy-path code, I want this to be simple, rediculously easy and very loosely coupled. No inheritance, no abstractions, very shallow dependency trees and so on.
Just once too often did a bug in exception handling cause a system to go down - It is often not or hardly covered in tests (Its exceptional after all) and very unpredictable: more than elsewhere do exceptions have the tendency to arise where you never expected them (it's in the definition, really).
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#55Glad to see that Microsoft is making Windows more and more similar to Linux by every passing day :)
Yeah, this isn't Linux. Linux is better than this these days.
I use Linux. You absolutely need to drop down to the command line at times. Upgrading my Kennel, or Graphics driver breaks something like 20% of the time for me.
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#56Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#57i remember reading years ago about the reason windows updates since 8 or 10 were so bad was because MS fired all testers and scrapped their testing hardware and now they are testing virtually in cloud. I guess nothing has changed, still. cost cutting at its best.
>MS fired all testers and scrapped their testing hardware and now they are testing virtually in cloud
Do you have any sources for this? AFAIK, according to the LTT wan show when he was duiscussing his conversation with MS baout Windows sleep issues, he laerned MS still uses plenty of bare metal HW for testing, especailly notebooks and in no way got rid of it.
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#58I've followed the instructions and understand that they may seem overwhelming for some users. Instead of using command line methods, I opted for Windows Disk Management to shrink the drive's partitions and create the necessary space. It's surprising that a script hasn't been provided for this process, which suggests the complexity and potential pitfalls involved. This leads me to believe that the absence of a scripte…
I'd expect that "automatic disk and partition changes" have a rather high risk of severe data-loss.
Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
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Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
#60Had the journalist tryied Linux, would have known that it gives much better error messages than some random looking number.
It literally gave the wrong error message? > Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error.
Yes, and it's ironic that there's an error in the error handling routine :D