New Windows updates cause UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR blue screens

Post by mrguyorama » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

justsomehnguy wrote: post #49

vladvasiliu wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Installing is a nightmare too with the online account requirement. My nightmare, before the account shenanigans, was finding a mouse for my HP laptop, whose trackpad didn't work OOB. Then, once I'd managed to go through the installation, the account thing was a PITA because the Intel wifi card wasn't supported, and this laptop doesn't have a wired network port. I was actually going to use an MS account (this is a w…

Ah, yes, Gates personally banned the drivers for this 2020 WiFi cards. Or maybe it was Intel who did a bazillion of cards with a minor diffs and/or didn't ask MS to add this flavour to the default driver set, shipped with Windows install media?

Post by deely3 » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

konschubert wrote: post #46

Windows, Office and Teams are so weirdly unpleasant to use. It's hard for me to put my finger on it - it's a mix of ugly UI, bad UX and general bugginess.

Post by tw04 » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:41 PM UTC

toasteros wrote: post #27

tw04 wrote: post #17

I think people might need to put the pitchforks down. It's a preview release, and we have 0 information on the systems in question. You can easily avoid the issue by not participating in the early release program. Finding issues like this is literally why the preview program exists. Should they have caught this with internal testing? Maybe, we don't have enough information to know.

Indeed no pitchforks, but I can see where some concern has come from. On the release of Windows 11 it was stated that only newer Intel and AMD generations were to be officially supported and while workarounds are built in (literally a registry flag in the installer) to install on even a Pentium 4 [1], they came with a warning from Microsoft that installations in such environments "may not receive updates". Is it ther…

Post by vladvasiliu » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:44 PM UTC

justsomehnguy wrote: post #49

vladvasiliu wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Installing is a nightmare too with the online account requirement. My nightmare, before the account shenanigans, was finding a mouse for my HP laptop, whose trackpad didn't work OOB. Then, once I'd managed to go through the installation, the account thing was a PITA because the Intel wifi card wasn't supported, and this laptop doesn't have a wired network port. I was actually going to use an MS account (this is a w…

Ah, yes, Gates personally banned the drivers for this 2020 WiFi cards. Or maybe it was Intel who did a bazillion of cards with a minor diffs and/or didn't ask MS to add this flavour to the default driver set, shipped with Windows install media?

Post by whalesalad » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #64

whalesalad wrote: post #62

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Under the hood macOS is Unix though... so there is a lot to be said for that. I can run tools like sed, awk, grep right out of the box. As someone who is in a shell 24x7 on multiple remote linux servers it is nice to also have a very similar experience within my local desktop environment.

So then you just `wsl --install` and you get a proper Linux distribution. Also get the Windows Terminal from the store and you're off to the races. I honestly consider this a better experience compared to Apple's BSD tools and lack of first-party package manager.