I love how they keep announcing they will scale back AI but actually just continue forcing it on you.

Fuck microslop

Here's how you can pick when you get Feature Updates, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/policy-csp-update#deferfeatureupdatesperiodindays

One just has to appreciate the amount of money Microsoft keeps spending to Linux advertisement.

Has microslop pushed out a single update for Windows 11 that didnt cause some kind of catastrophe in one way or another?

Of the around 8 computers in my house I am down to just a single Windows machine and every time I see an update queued I wonder just how much worse it will be after the update is applied. How many new bugs, reset settings and user hostile shit will I have to put up with this time.

I forget that I have Windows on my computer which I can always dual-boot to. Linux just feels much smoother and not as sluggish in comparison despite copule of the kinks it has but that's more me being a Linux noob.

I hit the point a while ago of just setting my connection as metered so it doesn't download any updates. I know it's less secure, but I just want to use my computer and not spend hours fixing problems they create with every update.

Huh I use this link btw, achieves the same thing

https://archlinux.org/download/

I still have windows on my work computer, it prompted me to install 26h2 yesterday, so I did. Immediately, windows explorer started showing buggy behavior. Win+tab flickers on and off repeatedly, explorer restarts itself... Fucking hell, and then they say AI code is good.

Ah yes and they made this notification icon more annoying so you think there's updates but they just want to sucker you into early installation.

Well, for that it just got a few weeks of delay. And maybe later Linux install.

Right? If they had just kept windows as "fine" I probably would not have made the switch to Linux. Inertia is powerful. Now I'm full Linux time and have no regrets. Pop!_os with the kde desktop is fine

So.... A normal Patch Tuesday?

I just install 10 LTSC on the computers I REALLY need windows on. The updates have no new features at this point, just security. I don't use it too much, but it's just less obnoxious than 11.

But they let you move the start bar again, so there is that at least.

It installed fine on my machine yesterday as far as I can tell. Also seems no different to before.

Another full Linux switcher, I am long time user for work but wouldn't have fully gotten rid of my personal windows desktop if they hadn't done this. Even better, my kids are learning Linux and even gaming on it. They lost generational lock-in for a few months of profit

I've been living in Linux-land for the last 30 years, and I've never really believed my wife when she says that updates just break things and tries to avoid them to no end.

Why does Microsoft do that? It seems like it would be bad for business.

Move to ltsc if you have to use Windows. You don't get the updates everyone else gets. Just security updates.

::: spoiler No, thanks.

:::

Wait, wasn’t this the same update Microsoft just yesterday said was a “predictable and low-impact” one?

The peak-years Simpsons writer’s room couldn’t come up with a better punchline.

Man I want to switch so bad but there's games that I can't play on linux

They'll scale back data center investment. Not scale back user push

Are you insulting Mr. Arch himself?

Once Windows 10 becomes obsolete I'll just switch to Linux.

A friend bought me bf6 so I set up secure boot and windows 11 on another drive. Haven't booted to it since.

The way things are going on 11, you won't be able to play them there soon either.

Switch to Linux now. What's keeping you?

Oh I'm stealing this one.

Why is the penguin sad in this picture?
The Penguin is probably laughing its tail off at the moment.

To be honest, the Windows 11 code written by people is also terrible.

I second this - it's a whole world of better .. install with a few anti telemetry and anti-crap scripts.

I think buddy's more confused than sad.

You have been using Linux for the past 30 years but you are shocked that updates can break things? What?

Yeah no OS is immune to broken stuff. Sigh, I can't figure out how to fix my Linux phone after being dumb enough to try to install vs code for classes. Can't upgrade to the next version because of it.

It happened once in the last ten years (thanks Nvidia). But I just rolled back to my previous btrfs snapshot and kept on computing until it was fixed a day or two later.

But forced breaking updates the first Tuesday of every month sounds like a really bad user experience.

Things were different back in the 90s before loadable kernel modules. Online updates weren't much of a thing, either. You'd just install that new slackware release over your old root partition anyway.

So you do know about it? Also what about the first twenty?

As of a few days ago, Outlook Classic started shoving AI even harder down my throat at work. Aside from the usual, non-removable copilot button on the ribbon, they now have two new prompts right in your face:

That's 4 places to get copilot in one screen, 5 if you count the key combination they offer. I tried to get rid of these new ones, even as far as using GPOs, to no avail. I read a while back that the take-up on copilot had been much lower than they expected, so it seems that they're desperate to increase user engagement with it, hence pushing it at every possible opportunity.

I have the memory of a goldfish with poor memory. I can't recall any other big breaks in the last 20. I'm sure there's been some since, but trivial enough to fix and forget about.

Any scripts you recommend?

If it’s anticheat, fuck those games off. Kernel level anti-cheat is essentially a rootkit. Fuck that.

Yeah they “let you”…… on the computer you own. Linux yo

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

Yesterday my laptop updated Windows to 26H2. I never have touched a laptop so hot (while it was lying on the couch, standby! It would not boot anymore but after a few tries it finally booted, giving all sorts of warnings... Today it works normally again. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck them in their stupid faces. PLEASE Steinberg. Release Cubase for Linux.

It's goddamn operating system. The only fucking thing it needs to do is connect all the hardware on the motherboard with drivers. Drivers? The manufacturers of the hardware themselves can write those best. And then. Not any, and I repeat NOT ANY bloatware can justify it's own existance. Users select software, user selects drivers.
Microscum nearly destroyed the digital world, let's thank them by abandoning that shitty OS all together yesterday.

“Reportedly, the update is overwriting modern NVIDIA and AMD graphics drivers with generic Windows WHQL versions.”

Reported by whomst?? It’s completely fabricated by this article

Constant negative propaganda about win11. I updated it, its fine

Yup, and there’s more and more various ads in these programs as well. The worst is on the mobile version of Outlook, in the calendar, it says ‘Give me something to do’ or something along these lines. I’m like bitch please, I have enough shit to do without Copilot coming up with stuff based on my calendar.

You can get the MS ISO of the Win 10 LTSC from the official website.

To activate. https://massgrave.dev/

LTSC has an amazing amount already removed this is my goto for the rest

Open PowerShell as Administrator.
​Run: iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
​Navigate to the Tweaks tab and apply the Essential Tweaks profile to safely disable residual telemetry and scheduled tasks.

Sycnex Windows10Debloater for any remaining tweaks.