May I present: Vibe coding and a disbanded QA department in action, everyone.
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Proper release note here 👌 'improves and breaks', see also 'enhances and bricks', 'optimizes and destroys' and 'fixes and fucks up'
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I'm on my last Windows device. After this it's linux and apple. Fuck MS.
On Linux, you can set a theme, that is neither dark nor burns out your eyes.
So happy I don't have to deal with this, dark mode is a must for me.
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The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don't feel any real competitive pressure.
AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don't need to worry about competition.
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Good riddance Windows die in a fire. I'm glad they're owning up to having an unmainatable 20 year old pile of spaghetti code and are giving up. Makes it die faster.
Win 11 is one of the 'bad' releases for sure (cf ME, Vista, 8 vs XP, 7, possibly 10)
Beyond the title, Louis eloquently talks about this dynamic here:
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i could make a mean comment, but i recently switched from mint to ultramarine kde and i could swear it's buggier than w11. literally every time i look at it wrong i need to reboot.
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I'd love to recommend the file pilot the file explorer. It isn't the most feature complete (it's still on beta) but just the sheer amount of time you gain by it's search tooling is just astonishing.
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