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

Fuck microslop

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

So.... A normal Patch Tuesday?

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.

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

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.

Once Windows 10 becomes obsolete I'll just switch to 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

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

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