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Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (www.neowin.net)
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[–] mech@feddit.org 191 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue. First, Microsoft says that restarting the Shell Infrastructure host (SIHost.exe) service will help restore the missing Immersive Shell packages. This can be done with the following commands:

Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode

Second, a PowerShell logon script has been shared that essentially blocks Explorer from launching prematurely until the required packages are fully provisioned. The batch script for that is given below:

@echo off  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"
REM Register Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"

I swear to god, if I hear "Windows just works" one more goddamn time...

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 81 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

"Windows just works"

When did Microsoft steal Apple's marketing material?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 76 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe I've just been lucky, but for several years and on several different machines I've found Linux just works, while Windows is an endless treadmill of frustration and brokenness.

[–] Emi@ani.social 19 points 21 hours ago

Went from mint to cachyOS and besides some things being different it just works.

[–] heydo@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I'm the exact opposite, every Linux install has something fucked, but I've never experienced any of these major Windows issues.

Of course I never update immediately, an old habit. And I do experience plenty of issues with Windows like everyone else does, I've just been lucky with the major issues.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

What didn't Microsoft steal?

[–] mech@feddit.org 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

my heart

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Quit laying blame on my fart

My fart...

My fart.

I should have known I did shart

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago
  • A version of libc that has POSIX shims.
  • A filesystem with reflink support.
  • A consistent UI design across old and new programs.
  • Dark mode that works everywhere.
  • Respect for their users' autonomy.

Need I go on?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My money because I always pirated.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Funnily enough they were actually able to snag like $5 from me through some dark pattern that most likely got my daughter to accidentally sign up for an O365 subscription when she was using my computer. I saw the email welcoming me to O365 and immediately cancelled but still

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Quality assurance?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn't need a driver to be manually installed and configured.

Windows 98 I guess.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Windows 98 SE, maybe. We didn't gain much traction there until about Win2k or XP.

Windows 98 in its original flavor didn't even support USB mass storage devices out of the box without drivers. Hands up everyone who remembers having to carry around one of those tiny driver CDs that came in the box with every single Sandisk Cruzer for a couple of years? Yeah? How quickly we forget.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah usb came with 98-SP2 IIRC

[–] erictile@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Windows 98 SE doesn't have it out of the box either. While it came well after Windows XP had taken over, in 2005 Maximus Decim released his USB drivers, which cobbles together USB mass storage drivers from newer versions of Windows, with modifications to get them working on Windows 98 with just an installer.

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/win-98se-usb-issues.1240710/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/43605-maximus-decim-native-usb-drivers/

[–] erictile@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

By the way, if someone is looking to actually use it, I just want to warn that version 3.6 replaces the System Control Panel component with the one Windows ME, which has a different look and feel and misreports the OS version. Version 3.5 doesn't do that and has worked with every flash drive I've tried, so I'd recommend that version.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

I guarantee I will never use this information. But thank you anyway.

[–] erictile@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Windows 98 SE doesn't have it out of the box either. While it came well after Windows XP had taken over, in 2005 Maximus Decim released his USB drivers, which cobbles together USB mass storage drivers from newer versions of Windows, with modifications to get them working on Windows 98 with just an installer.

[–] erictile@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

test

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

My recollection is that USB on windows was kind of a dumpster fire until XP. Or maybe that was just printers in general.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 8 points 19 hours ago

One thing (only good thing) about Vista was that it rationalised Printer (and Scanner) Drivers.

The UI was consistent between printer manufacturers and everything could be accessed through one interface.

Then the Printer manufacturers complained to MS because they couldn’t have infinite branding all over the interface and the feature was dumbed down in 7.

Meanwhile Apple used the same UI for all Printers (based on CUPS) and didn’t even let a company logo appear in the interface.

Not all the Apple CUPS drivers were available for Linux CUPS so unfortunately Linux (at the time) still had their device compatibility issues.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hell I remember when USB on PCs was basically a set of pins on the motherboard and you had to buy the actual port assembly separately and hope there was somewhere reasonable on your case to mount it. Was going absolutely nowhere on PC until the iMac came and did away with all other ports and no peripherals built in.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I remember my sister winning an iPod and gave it to me, because she didn't need it. I had to run to the computer store in town to purchase a USB deck for my motherboard. Fun times.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What is a “USB deck”?

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can't remember what it's called, and I was drunk last night lol. It was a USB card with pins you slottet into the motherboard, just like GPUs.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ah a USB card. Yeah those were/are a thing.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Probably a square rectangle of plastic you'd add to your PC, like a CD player, but with a USB connector. And wires/card towards the mobo. Cases always had like 2-4 emplacements for those kind of things on the front.

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

More like they adopted Bethesda's marketing material after they acquired ZeniMax

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 70 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

But Linux is too difficult, someone might suggest you use the terminal.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 35 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

And don’t get me started on the people who assume macOS does not have a command line.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Bonus points if they open Spotlight and type "CMD".

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 16 hours ago

But most users never need to open it because Apple at least tests their OS before yeeting it into prod, unlike this hot mess.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago

It does, if you are talking about pre 11, and dont care about internet pre 10. But otherwise fuck Microsoft with a rusty shovel, theyve ruined anything good about windows and make it harder and harder not to switch to steamos, the only reason I don't is because of the pain of reinstalling everything and not having the drive space to shuffle files to it.

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

"Omg Linux is so hard!!" Meanwhile Windows: