I've read somewhere that they, indeed, force developers to use Copilot now. So in fact you're right, it's slop.

It’s even worse than that; it’s being vibe coded by recently graduated graphic designers with no development experience. More specifically the entire interface was created by a team like this who were, based on job announcements, all hired about 6 months before 11 was announced.

All hail the Tux!

I use Gentoo btw.

Windows Vista is incomparably better than Windows 10. Windows 11 is something else entirely.

Difference is that Windows 7 was out before XP support was dropped, so people could just skip over Vista. They don't have that option with 11.

...except so much worse

Tbh I don't think Microsoft's fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.

It feels like the severity got worse, though. Maybe I just got unlucky.

I've mostly run Windows Enterprise for my job for decades.

And yes, there have always been "nothing useful is happening until Microslop fixes their shit." days.

But the issues last year finally got me to shift even my work PC to Linux, because I felt that the Windows productivity cost shifted from "wait a day and laugh it off" to actually threatening my ability to deliver solutions.

If the descent had been less rapid, I would have just had central IT send me a Mac. But central IT seemed overwhelmed, and so Linux Mint is just working now.

Anyway, I totally agree this has been going on for decades. I'm just curious how/why it got so much worse, for me personally, last year.

I suspect all the QA engineers laid off have something to do with it, or course.

Yeah, there was a lot of these types of headlines with Win 10, especially in the beginning. It was a shitshow at first. It's what pushed me to Linux at that time.

You misspelled "Microslop"

I could actively make things worse for a fraction of the price!

Indeed