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I'm honestly starting to not believe these articles. On an up to date version of w11 I never see any of the changes these articles claim are happening. I'm a linux user so I like laughing at windows as much as the next guy but i dont want to be an idiot falling for misinfo.
If you want comedy, look at the apple help fourms. You think linux users reimage alot the only troubleshooting step apple has is to reimage.
That's not entirely true. More often than not, the only troubleshooting step the "Apple Certified Professionals" there offer is to buy a new Mac.
And you can trade in your existing one for a couple hundred bucks off a new purchase
Isn't that a good deal?
Lol, no. A good majority of the time the issue is something simple like a loose or broken ribbon cable that would cost $3 in parts and $50 in labour (if you're being generous with the time).
This practice of the "Genus" bar people telling a customer that they need a whole board replacement that would cost $2000 and saying it's cheaper to get a whole new computer is well documented.
https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns
I was joking of course. I know about all of Apple's exploits all too well
Ah, ok. Well, Poe's law
Never in my life have I needed to reimage any Linux machine, but I have had to reimage many, many, many windows machines and quite a few Apple devices too. I have a long career in IT (and even before that, I've been building computers since I was 12), so my sample size consists of thousands of computers going back decades.
I've only ever reimaged Linux systems when I felt like distro hopping for fun. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I think it's probably more to do with the fact that Linux tends to be extremely reliable once you have it set up (unless you manage to break it, but even then there are usually multiple ways to fix it without reimaging).
I went from an Ubuntu 16.04 install all the way to 20.04 and they involved multiple hardware upgrades and a completely new system at one point, just swapped out the root/home drive.
Since then I've been on EndeavourOS with pretty much the same story.
With Windows 7 and 10 I had to constantly reinstall.
same!… heck work updated my laptop from win10 to 11 and now the "Windows App" won't run… IT dude gave up trying to fix it and order a swap
This is a laptop used, at most once a week, for regular office bs and it basically self destroyed just through windose updates
Same here (except I'm 35 years into being a tech hobbyist, not a professional), and I've never reimaged a Linux install (except to try imaging it and learn how it works). Having been exclusively on Linux for 9 years now (playing with it for over 20 years) and Fedora the last 6, I can confidently say that it's easier to just keep your important files in a separate drive (home directory in its own drive for example) and just reinstall whatever you want if you end up breaking your OS. Reimaging seems way more convoluted.
Out of interest, which aspect don't you believe? The article is clear the broken update effects a specific subset of enterprise users, on a specific mix of base versions and cumulative updates.
This seems like a classic windows update issue. In fairness to Microsoft it is difficult to prevent bugs when there is a huge install base, with a huge range of hardware, with a huge range of users on different mixes of updates and updating at their own. I personally think that's totally believable.
What's not clear is perhaps the implied overarching story that W11 is worse for this than other versions of Windows. I can't answer that about windows updates themselves, but I certainly believe W11 is the worst version of Windows I've ever used (and I've used every version back to 3.11 as a kid). I have to use W11 at work: the UI is absolutely terrible and unfriendly but far worse it constantly and inexplicably slows down, programs become unresponsive repeatedly and I come across errors constantly.
I work in a big organisation and I don't even bother to report most errors now - we hop between PCs because of the nature of my Job, and I've come up across so many I just can't be bothered opening more tickets. I'd describe it as a mostly large volume of minor issues and inconveniences that cumulatively, on top of the bad design, that make it a shit experience. But I've also had numerous major errors since we moved from W10 to W11 on different PCs - they all have the same hardware and software yet the problems are different on each. I've given up reporting the problems and just avoid the PCs, and I think a lot of my colleagues are the same.
My organisation (I work in a large Hospital), is already stretched due to high work volume and low staffing and we now have a constantly little drag from Windows 11 on everything we do. It's like Microsoft sprinkle a little bit of shit onto every computer, every day, all day. The cumulative effect in just my organisation must be massive - I shudder to think how bad it is across the whole economy.
I'm a little bit sceptical here - yes, managing that is complicated. But it also is Microsofts fault - managing and constructing updates that work even with different versions or update paths is possible. I really struggle to see how an update could even kill the start menu or Explorer.
So you admit the headline is lying, then? The headline doesn't even try to use weasel words to say "some users", it just straight-up says that the update removes things, heavily implying both that it's a global change, and that it's deliberate.
From the article:
Are you running Windows 11 Enterprise?
Yeah and even did the steps listed and no issue. If its happening its a rare bug and as a linux user I dont wang to clown on rare bugs since that is throwing stones in a glass house.