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What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by grandma@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Alternatively,

Installed POP OS. Connect the Nintendo switch to my laptop using MTP. Double click the file folder. Crashes.

Decide to just reset to see if it would fix it. The laptop loops at the authentication screen infinitely. Used a PC to transfer files instead.

Reformat and install Fedora Workstation since Lenovo ships with it. Installed Anydesk and Rustdesk and Wayland is extremely laggy and the hot keys do not transfer to the remote computer.

I think my next step is to install an xorg OS.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 minutes ago

For gaming u gotta use sunshine moonlight or whatever they called. But that requires more fucking around with than I care

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 25 minutes ago

Fedora has built in rdp server. That's what I use. Laggy? Ya dude that's for office work, don't push more than 1080p, yes it's still gonna be inperfect

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I'm guessing this is a misleading post? Probably a random app in the store that's called "terminal" that is broken and the actual windows command prompt is working fine.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Command prompt is slowly becoming legacy. Microsoft wants powershell to be its successor thus Terminal was born.

[–] ShaunKL@startrek.website 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Can confirm this is an actual issue from Microsoft impacting lots of normal system apps that update via the Microsoft Store and/or Windows Update.

I’ve seen it mess up Notepad, Snipping Tool to name a few.

It’s pretty egregious that a bug like this can mess up utilities already installed on your computer.

Windows is really feeling like a single-player video game that requires an always on connection.

Source: I’m an IT professional who has been helping people with this since yesterday.

More source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5729246/how-to-fix-error-code-0x803f8001

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Hating windows is the ultimate karma farm here on Lemmy. If you can somehow hate windows and Trump in one post, expect to see that shit at the top.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Lemmy doesn't have karma

[–] Mouarfff@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Cancel Microsoft 🤷‍♀️

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 8 hours ago

For anyone who's interested, Microsoft have provided an update that's about as helpful as you might have expected, right at the top of the Github issue where this has been reported.

! Note

What we Know

There is an issue impacting all store applications on Windows as of 2026-01-21.

There have been some reports that choosing to Repair the Terminal application has restored it to working order.

Source

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 10 points 7 hours ago

What you already paid money for your OS? Fuck that. Help us sell your data for basic functionality too.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Linux master race!

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I recently tried to install librewolf onto a W11 machine from the windows store. It won’t even launch that. Not even an error or nothing just gone.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

don't use the windows store, when not required you can never know what else they package into your apps. google and amazon's android app stores do this, the latter is even open about adding tracking libs to apps

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 7 hours ago

Well that’s the thing, it’s a pc I’m required to use and it got everything else behind administrators password if you catch my drift. (If I had my way it would be Linux)

For now I’ll have to make due with a ff that I tweak by hand where I can.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 46 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Get help with this"

The real joke.

[–] b_van_b@programming.dev 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I had a similar error with a different application. Clicking "Get help with this" just opened the Documents folder in Explorer.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Did it help?

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

It sucks. But I'm pretty sure there's some kind of bug going on in win 11 right now. I was even getting that earlier today when trying to open snipping tool after it was already open. I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Microsoft: “Let’s fire our QA teams. We’ll force our dev team to use AI in coding. Then we’ll have the public test it.”
Also Microsoft:

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.

The fact that this is even possible just demonstrates how broken Windows is fundamentally.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

It’s probably all the vibe coding they do internally nowadays

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

At this point it seems like the bug is Windows 11 itself.

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[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 31 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

i was about to suggest using winget to reinstall it but then i realized that would require a functional terminal to accomplish, something i had taken for granted

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[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

The Microsoft Store is impressively bad. So many random errors that don't give any helpful information that are impossible to fix.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to give an error code to a user in Hexadecimal form, with no other information.

An error occurred: 0x 80070003

is hardly helpful at all.

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 133 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Steps to reproduce

Open Terminal

Expected Behavior

It would be pretty nice, if the terminal would open

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/19764

[–] chM5tZ8zMp@lemmy.sdf.org 53 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, only one of my two systems is experiencing this issue.

The one with the issue is running windows 11, and the working system is running Linux.

Priceless.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

LMAO the next action taken after that comment:

microsoft locked and limited conversation to collaborators

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[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 235 points 22 hours ago (23 children)

And of course that error code just means "there was an issue with the store" WOW THANKS SO MUCH DETAIL TO GO OFF OF

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 60 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You see, the problem is, that you try to open the Terminal on Windows Home or Pro. Personal use doesn't include advanced features like Terminal access. Please upgrade to a Windows Enterprise License to continue to be able to use the Terminal.

Alternatively you may try using Copilot to run commands and change system settings in a text based environment.

^/s^

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