Windows recently “hung up” when opening “network and internet settings”, just a blank square.
Also, blank square when opening “file explorer”.
Both are working now; my point is I couldn’t accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.
Lol
Lmao even
Windows is getting so bad, people are finally looking more to Linux
Oh no. They’ll still ignore it. They don’t care.
The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, […]
Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.
…insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.
And everywhere you go there’s prompts and alerts to upgrade your OneDrive storage or subscribe to Xbox game pass.
Don’t even get me started on the experience on handhelds. Microsoft’s attempts so far at the Xbox Full Screen experience convinces me they will never get it right.
Note that it doesn’t disable ads. It just means the ads a user sees will be less relevant to the user based on their browsing history and consumer profiles.
I already thought it was pretty bad but that is somehow even worse. Par for the course I suppose
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
They can be removed with third party tools but they shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Consumers are what, less than 10% of MS’s revenue? Most of their income is from cloud (Azure, O365) so they can afford to treat their consumer customers like trash. They don’t give a shit about your 50-150 bucks for a win license because it’s peanuts to them.
The only viable option for consumers is to massively ditch MS products altogether and migrate to alternatives, which used to be in short supply but luckily aren’t anymore.
It’s probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don’t install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.
And yeah, consumer Windows could disappear and MS wouldn’t care, as long as office computers are still stuck with it. Which they are.
Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he’s bought the original Surface table from 2007, he’s been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.
Yep.
I started using windows as a kid (Win 3.1). Was more or less happy to be a windows user through all of the various versions, although 95, XP and 7 were the most usable.
For the first time in about 35 years, I’m genuinely unhappy with Windows and am looking at other options.
They’ve really dropped the ball if users like me are unhappy.
Come to CachyOS!
It’s like everything I’ve ever wanted from an OS served on a silver platter.
🤦🏻♂️
The real issue is that they pulled Windows 10. When Vista was shit, you could use XP until 7 was released, when 8 was shit, you could use 7 until 10 was released. Now 11 is the only supported version and you have no choice if you’re for some reason stuck with Windows.
Turns out, there were a lot of users, primarily gamers, who were considering giving Linux a chance. Microsoft gave them the push they needed.
Steam should get some credit for working on improving its proton integration.
Valve certainly put in the lion’s share of effort in making Linux a hospitable environment for gamers. Without their hard work, the rise in popularity of Linux simply wouldn’t be possible, and I had no intention of belittling that.
Valve made sure there were life rafts. Microsoft provided the iceberg.
Time for Nadella to take responsibility for these fuck ups and resign already.
CEOs taking responsibility for their actions? In the Usa?!?!
The tech bros are turning everything to shit so you don’t notice any one thing is shit because it’s all shit now. Genius
I’m starting to think Microsoft gives windows a new version number every time they want to make a bunch of big breaking changes, just so the bad reputation can die when they rebrand it as Windows 12 (or whatever stupid naming scheme their marketing team comes with next.)
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just started calling it Copilot at some point. I could see them renaming their “agents” after big feature updates, much like we do with hurricanes which would be fitting given their history of breaking things with each KB.
I’ve been a Windows user my whole life. I support 5000+ Windows devices along with the whole Microsoft enterprise suite. It’s been bad with them, but there have usually been patches at some point or at least community discovered workarounds. However, Microsoft’s reckless abandon into AI legitimately worries me.
I’m finally making the switch to Linux for personal devices.
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Nobody does remember 9 since they went from 8.1 (which is different from 8) to 10.
How people can give money to a software maker that has shown they can not count to 10 always blows me away.
Microsoft deserves all the crap they’ve ordered, but skipping 9 on versioning was pretty smart move on their part. There’s still a ton of older software which just checks if windows version matches ‘windows 9’ to include both 95 and 98 (and all their variants). If 8.1 was released as 9 it would’ve broken a lot of compatibility which at least then was a big deal for Windows. And it still is, but now it seems that they’ll happily break everything from their most known product.
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
Look, they can count to two and that is good enough for software. But if portal 4 comes out next I am going to lose it.
Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.
Also because many software did version checks by doing a substring search “Windows 9”.
Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
If you think about it, the PS4 had titles like Killzone, Final Fantasy, Destiny, Diablo 3, Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed, Battlefield 4…
I mean, adding death to that doesn’t seem too risky.
/s
I detest this company for many reasons, it’s like they go out of their way to make dealing with them as painful as possible.
Here’s just one example I discovered today. I have a Windows 10 VM I needed to upgrade to 11 but the “PC Health Check” app says no, the i5 processor isn’t supported.
I can, however, create a new VM and install 11 on the exact same hardware, so that’s what I did, along with a whole bunch of extra work to get the new VM set up the same as the old Windows 10 VM was.
Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.
Assholes.
This is how i feel about 98% of Azure. Its just so needlessly complicated, with incomprehensible defaults, and out of date documentation, and APIs that just fail silently.
So much this. I actually pulled all of our servers from Azure and went back to a regular provider. Way cheaper as well.
There is a way to upgrade directly. I got this from Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1afu0uj/is_it_safe_to_install_windows_11_on_my_microsoft/
It works fine - you just won’t get the more advanced security features available in more recent laptops.
- Boot up into Windows 10
- ensure you have 30GB free space
- Download the .iso: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
- right-click the .iso and select “mount” to create a virtual DVDROM
- create a new folder on your main system drive and copy all the files from the virtual DVDROM
- start a command-prompt
- navigate to the folder where you copied all the files
- run the following:
.\sources\setupprep.exe /product server
This will not actually install the server version of windows but will bypass the CPU check so that you can install Win11 on an unsupported CPU. The actual version of Windows installed will depend on the version of Win10 you have: Pro, Home, or Enterprise, for example.
Is that an upgrade or a fresh install?
It will upgrade an existing install. I did it on my surface and all my files and settings were kept.
You can also flash a usb stick with rufus, mint needs 4GB IIRC.
/j
I prefer Fedora. Tried mint and hated it.
Thank you for this. I already did a fresh install but it’s interesting that your link is to the Surface subreddit just to rub some more salt in the wound. The processor is officially supported for upgrades only if it’s in Microsoft’s hardware. I hate them so much.
The irony wasn’t lost on me. Since I was trying to update my surface. I’ve also installed Linux on it. Which runs a lot faster on the older Surface Nook 1 harder.
Have you tried creating a new VM and attaching your existing vhdx or whatever to it?
I just went for a new installation. Why would that work? Just curious.
It sounds like your VM config was presenting a COU or TPM config that the upgrade wasn’t comfortable with. If your new machine presented acceptable configs to a brand new VM, then making a new VM and feeding it the old .vhdx would be the same as pulling a storage device and putting it in a new motherboard that was win 11 compliant. After a reboot to install new drivers it probably would have upgraded happily.
Hmm, the only barrier to upgrading was that the i5 processor wasn’t supported, no complaints about TPM/motherboard compatibility and a fresh install worked fine on the exact same hardware. Oh well, it’s done anyway.
The hypervisor doesn’t necessarily present the guest the exact CPU you’re running. Maybe it was presenting an older model, or something stripped down that didn’t have the features win 11 was looking for. It’s moot.now that you found a solution but I believe this is what happened and moving the disks to a new VM probably would have worked.
