Last week I had the lovely experience of it also pushing a bios update that enabled bitlocker and locked me out of my drive. I had to completely wipe the laptop and lose the data.
When I updated to Windows 11, it detected TPM 2.0 but failed to notice my drive had an MBR partition table and therefore couldn’t use Secure Boot. It happily updated anyway and rendered my drive unbootable.
It’s especially bad when it’s stuck like that for hours, and you have to make a gamble with a force restart.
Spinners must die. I don’t care if I don’t understand what exactly you’re doing, Windows, (I’d be surprised if you knew), but show me something, anything about the steps you’re currently doing, so I can guess if you’re doing something at all.
They could actually show you a command prompt / terminal readout, which shows warnings and errors when things just outright fail and the process is borked… but that would scare people, apparently.
LOL, yup! I was just going to reply that people find that scary, and then got to your last sentence. Idk why it scares people. I love seeing the output.
Even if it scares people, why not provide a goddamn toggle to enable it for the non-dipshits?
Because MSFT long, long ago abandoned the concept of giving users choice, or just in general not treating them like idiot babies.
Brings me back to when I was contracting with them, same time Win 8 came out.
MSFT does what they call ‘dogfooding’, ie, every worker is alpha/beta testing basically all MSFT software all the time.
My team was managing SQL servers and running queries. SQL Manager, and a whole bunch of other shit completely broke when 8 came out.
It initially did not even have the ability to go back to a Win7 style interface.
They truly believed that limiting all office workers to a UI where they could have, at max, one pane on 1/3 of the screen and another pane on 2/3rds would be completely fine.
We effectively could do no work for about 1/3 of our contract.
Working at or for MSFT is a curse I would only wish upon my worst enemies.
I actually had to quit another, earlier contract as my manager expected me to work overtime without pay. Before that, my one cool boss just showed me that I was being paid about 1/3 of what MSFT was paying the contracting firm for me.
And that is to say nothing of the massive racism that all the American employees just looked the other way on: Pretty common for Indian employees of a higher caste to treat Indian contractors of a lower caste like total dogshit, and the line from HR was ‘its their culture!’.
Somebody convince me I’m wrong.
There is no reason to display “100%” in your UI for more than a single second. Either show 99% and then finish, or show 100% only when you are ACTUALLY done and only show it for a little.
If you’re still doing ANYTHING AT ALL don’t say you’re 100% complete. How is it still like this
How is it still like this
Because Microsoft knows no one is going to stop using Windows even if it sucks. It’s same way no one actually moves to Canada when a shitty US president is elected. The average person has a high tolerance for bullshit.
more accurately, average person has a higher tolerance for bullshit than for spending many hours learning something new or spending potentially years applying for citizenship in another country
Something something Linux something something Windows bad something something proprietary
Yes, but unironically.
It’s amazing how much pain Windows users will endure just for the privilege of…
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well, something probably.
For me it’s playing games.
Also fingerprint driver.
Playing games in general or specific games? Because just about every game I like to play runs just fine on Linux now. The only one I ever missed was Destiny2, but then I moved on.
Nah, a specific one, TOF. But I stopped playing it a while ago so ig I can go back now… But laziness is also a thing.
Laziness most definitely is a thing. I didn’t switch until I had to.
What’s TOF? I’m only finding answers about flight instruments and cardiac issues
Oh nono Tof is Tower of Fantasy. A Genshin Impact like game but with actualy nice multiplayer. It’s still a gacha game which is shite hence I stopped playing it, so I really don’t have a good excuse for going (back) to linux…
Maybe except fingerprint sensor.
Ah yeah, that seems to have Anticheat issues.
Still, I like to term it “System inertia” - moving systems is work, and unless something applies force, getting yourself to switch is hard.
Like Linux doesn’t have its annoying quirks that linux users will endure …
Just installing an audio device or Nvidio GPU is a pain. You guys are reinstalling your OS every couple of days because yet something else broke and you don’t know how to fix it. Repositories needing repositories needing repositories for things to work.
Not to mention the limited amount of programs that are compatible compared to Windows.
Source: made up
Literally none of this is true lmao
