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Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
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Other than “at gunpoint,” why are you still using Windows?
I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.
Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.
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Since joining the fediverse, I'm convinced the biggest deterrence for more people joining Linux are its users.
True, People can be obnoxious. But you should still try it at some point, there is something to the hype.
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I tried installing Linux but something went wrong and it didn't work.
I know better than to ask for basic computer help in a Linux community.
The Linux community seems to me more open than ever before. Possibly due to the influx of new users who's job is not to administer Linux systems.
I wouldn't be too afraid to ask questions. Linux systems are nowadays quite simple to setup and you shouldn't have much problems with getting a simple question replied to.
All it takes is one asshole during the trial phase to turn someone off from the community entirely. Especially a non-technical person trying to come from something like Windows. And there are a lot of vocal ones across the various Linux communities. Especially in the discussions on GitHub, which is where you end up for support on nearly every piece of software not from a massive corporation, unless it's a simple solution or a very common issue.
The number of times I have posted looking for assistance with an issue, or a small suggestion, and gotten some variant of "fix it (or add it) yourself, it's FOSS" over the last couple years is a bit ridiculous.
Most of the community is great and super helpful. But the assholes are prevalent and very vocal.
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Genuine question: how the hell does this keep happening? Don't they have any quality control, any testing, competent management, quality engineers, years of experience, or anything at all?
They fired their QA department in 2015 relying on telemetry of users to diagnose issues. Then last year they boasted a third of all their code is AI generated. You don’t have millions of lines of code over 2+ decades and have a high quality standard of a third of that was generated in 2 years.
They merged their QA department with Bethesda, raising the head count to 0.
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Just switch to Linux guys, stop being abused.
Gotta love that AI generated, reviewed, and shipped code.
Just when I thought Windows couldn't get worse.
And users are the QA department.
skip microsoft altogether
LOL
Oh, Microslop... How far you have sunk.
Fuck Windows. 2026 truly is the year of Linux. Finally!
Hell yeah made the move myself at the end of last year and am loving it
Yet another Microslop moment
Doubly so this is why I fear for the future of Linux dev if AI generated development is the future.
Skip ~~today's~~ Windows ~~11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more~~
"Just works," eh?
Windows "just works" the way Microsoft wants you to just work it.
macOS is the same way, but they also haven't made stupid sweeping changes that break decades of muscle memory, solely for aesthetic purposes...Like whatever the fuck they call paintbrush now, taking away the Alt+F and Ctrl+S keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.
That's why I like Linux, really. It feels kinda...idk...hostile(?)...using Windows lately. Like there's a tension in the air between me and my computer. As in, Linux behaves the way I tell it to behave. It knows the rules and so do I. The computer is subservient to me. Windows (and macOS...but to a lesser extent, because I'm not nearly as strong in it as I am the other two) act like they are in charge.
And even if I don't want to customize it, there's a thousand different OOBE's out there for Linux, surely one will work the way that I want it to.
Gnome is a great example. The Meta+LeftClick+Drag operation for moving windows, and Meta+MiddleClick+Drag for resizing? Chef's kiss. Lot's of DE's incorporate some variant of that now. Workspace view (or whatever it is called you get when you press Meta in Gnome) is another feature sorely missing from Windows.
Get used to using that and then go back to Windows.
Hell even Tiling WM's. How long did it take Windows to get (modern) tiling, and how ass-poor is it? Seriously, Hyprland (at least on CachyOS) has got to be the absolute slickest out-of-the-box-experience I've had with a DE. Tiling in Windows feels like it hasn't seen an improvement since probably Windows 3.1...and even in 11, it's only halfway decent if you install PowerToys.
It blows my mind that Windows is the default OS for general business/productivity tasks. Absolutely the worst of the (major) three in every aspect of productivity.
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Thanks. Will not switch from Gentoo to Windows today.
Man, I feel like I went 15 years without anybody talking to me about using Gentoo but now THEY'RE BACK! Glad to see you.
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Thanks for the heads-up, I'll be sure to not update my OpenSUSE install to Windows 11 👍
Skip ~~today's~~ Windows 11 ~~update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more~~
there, I fixed it.
skip windows
For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can't skip a Windows update. It's going to happen no matter what.
I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren't going to do any of that.
I could have done it and I didn't. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.
It's an optional update. It doesn't automatically install without activating the option to do so.
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Quit Windows today *
I have more interest in starting a WatchWindowsDie group than I do in going back to Windows, but it seems like the entire internet is already on the beat.
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This is the Preview channel update. People that opted into it should anticipate issues.
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I want so badly to switch to Linux on my main machine, but I have some projects of my on Adobe InDesign, anyone has an actual good alternative that can read InDesign files?
Switch to linux but keep your old windows on a partition or different hard drive for whenever you want to work on that stuff.
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Can't skip the update if you don't have any Windows installations.
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Haven't they said they're going to cater to complaining user base? That's like the opposite of that 😬
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