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Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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This is true on Windows too
It can be, but I never really run into any issues. Part of it is I'm more familiar with windows than linux I'm sure.
My linux desktop experience hasn't been as good, I run it on my laptop since that's more just a web browsing device than anything and it's not critical if it breaks. The last 2 times I've updated Fedora it has broken the bootloader and that took me quite awhile to fix, I can't figure out why it keeps happening as it's a really standard install and doesn't make any sense.
I also still can't get HW acceleration working in any browsers, flatpak or directly installed, which has been extremely frustrating since I've never had to do anything on windows for it to work. There are no clear guides with one fix either, and it's not something I should have to be fixing myself, it should work out of the box.
It should not be breaking the bootloader. I have a question though. Is Windows installed on that device? Windows absolutely will break your bootloader on an update, if it's installed on the same drive as Windows. No one knows if it's malice or a bug, but it's been a thing forever and they haven't fixed it, so it has to be desired to an extent.
I think it's a little of neither on that one... It's an effect of always assuming it's the only thing installed on a machine and not actually caring about not stepping on competition to code the updater to look for and respect dual boot configs
I'm sure they'd look at it like a happy little accident
That's what I expect too. It's technically a bug, but it's also doing something they want, so they don't care to fix it. If you aren't running Windows only, you're a second class citizen to them. If the update happens to fuck up your bootloader, they aren't concerned. They are aware of the issue, and they could fix it if they wanted to, but they don't care because it doesn't bother them.
Nope this 100% Linux machine and partitions.
Weird. I've never heard of this being an issue. I can't really help more without more knowledge of your system. It is abnormal though. I don't know what you did, but it isn't something that you would expect to happen.
Yeah I just need to reinstall at some point, maybe try another distro.
I'm not sure about the hardware acceleration, as far as I know it's just worked for me (or it's not been working and I've just not been aware), but for the bootloader breaking... Honestly, crap like that is why I don't understand why Fedora is as popular as it is, it's had weird issues like that pretty much since the beginning.
I'd recommend trying a different distro, maybe Mint or OpenSuSE, but bootloaders breaking on updates should be rare to non-existent
Not really; usually when something doesn't work as you like on Windows youre SOL...
Yes, but they said "doesn't work", not "doesn't work as I'd like", which are very different things