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Good information. However, the safest fix would be to delete the OS and install literally anything else (https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/). But alas, due to work constraints I understand some are stuck with Windows.
Literally says "if you are forced to use win 11" but ya saw an opportunity to be sanctimonious and positively leapt upon it.
Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?
The fortunate thing with "windows because of work constraints" is that this is a work problem. Not a me problem.
Exactly. Sadly I need windows on my laptop for college which is voluntary, so I'm stuck with it until I'm done.
Dual boot?
I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn't have easy access to a second device and I couldn't afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn't know what could go wrong.
I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern
That's where I was at with it too. I have a desktop which is thankfully Linux and will stay that way, but I figured it was too much effort to have a half Linux/half microslop laptop too. I'll just suffer with a bad laptop until I finish my degree.
Luckily my work still lets me use Win10 for as long as they give safety updates. Unfortunately for me, it‘s still Windows.
Hmmm. Let me check to see if I'm affected/infected.
Nope! No windows anymore. All good.
What do you use, btw
We know it isn't Arch because they world have already told us.
I use CachyOS.
Which is based on Arch btw…
Mint, Bazzite and Debian
Also on linux myself, but clearly I still have this issue
With the way so many of my (corporate) apps have been behaving lately, I'm convinced they've all been using slopcode.
Just the specific way the apps misbehave is shit I'd never seen before the recent AI bubble.
Don't forget about the large number of layoffs
Work has rolled everyone over to Windows 11 and I have to agree with many of the other replies. It's the most half baked OS they've released in a really long time. Really idiotic stuff happens... Like the snapshot and calculator tools just randomly refusing to start. And Outlook randomly refuses to recognize certain key inputs for a few minutes at a time (while other running apps continue to work just fine). Just really annoying.
Don't think it's just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.
Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My scrollwheel input from my mouse will just stop working for a bit in a certain window. But will continue working in a different window.
Same, I just figure if they want to use windows, then they need to accept all the work impacting problems and stoppages. Just like how they accept the security implications of an all windows network..
It’s so entrenched though, and the typical user doesn’t know any different these days so it’s all windows and cloud now. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for these things, but it doesn’t have to be the default all the time..
Vista was not bad. It gets a lot of hate, but Vista SP1 was rock solid. But 7 came shortly after and Vista never had the Aero Snap/Peek stuff and that was game-changing. 7 should have been a Vista service pack. Vista got shafted.
There were also driver issues, but that’s the fault of lazy vendors. Vista itself was fine, but only just fine.
I like Windows 11 at work well enough (and I have about 30 years of experience with that platform) but at home I’m a happy post-PC Mac user. Honestly there are a couple things Windows does better, and I’m familiar with the platform. But Microsoft needs to learn how to get out of their own way, and the way of power users.
One of the problems with Vista was the push for vendors to mark their machines as Vista ready at all costs, where the minimum requirements were way too low, so a lot of people ended up with their first Vista experience being an anemic one, as opposed to one with the right amount of system power.
Vista was also the first time we saw the UAC elevated privilege pop up which seemed to pop for just the simplest of reasons. Mostly because devs were putting too much of user config in the program files directory, or in the windows system directory. This made it so anytime you changed a user preference the UAC would come and ruin your day. Now we just have the devs shoving everything and anything into %AppData% instead.
I was there for Windows Me. Even Windows 95 I don't think people today would believe me how often it blue screened or had to be rebooted. Multiple times per day.
We used to have LAN parties back in the day with dialup internet.
We'd need a dedicated machine to just dial up to the internet and share the connection, because that way it could run for a day or more at a time without crashing and kicking everyone off.
I remember the moment where I realised I could just... plug the modem into my new XP machine now. You could use a computer and share internet and it'd work! For days!
There's a reason XP hung on for so long and the previous versions didn't. XP was the first version of Windows that people felt was good enough and they didn't need anything more.
XP was the first NT-version with a Home Edition. If you’d been running Windows 2000 at home you would’ve felt the same way (XP is basically just 2000 with a facelift, NT 5.0 to NT 5.1) and even NT4 was pretty good (though 2000 was better).
The 9x series (95, 98, ME) were built on a different kernel and designed specifically for home use and were, in comparison, terrible. ME was especially terrible as they tried to bring plug-and-play to the 9x core without NT’s hardware abstraction layer and shit did not work well.
I bought a machine right before 7 launched to replace my XP machine. Vista SP2 was solid by then. I ran it for over a year because it was extremely stable.
I waited a bit over a year to install 7 on the machine when it's SP1 came out.
I am not affected on my Ubuntu installation
They are just "vibe coding" updates now.
And of course, it's crap.
The new Mac Tahoe OS has a weird bug as well.
The wallpaper extention copies the image/video you want to use into a cache and, if you have a wallpaper that changes, it caches every single image you use. If you're drawing from a folder that has 100GB worth of images, it will cache 100GB worth of images...and fill up your hard drive. I was drawing from a folder that has 400GB of images, and it was crashing apps because the cache was taking up all my disk space.
I've had to stop rotating my wallpaper and go with something really simple, and i really miss being able to use all my images.
@madthumbs@lemmy.world live reaction:
Microsoft be like: Storage has gotten very expensive? Hold my beer!
That is unsettling news. I quickly ran uname -a on all my machines. I was lucky enough to find out that I'm unaffected.
"It looks like you're running out of storage space. Unlock the full potential of your hard drive using Windows Space. Please select a payment plan that best suits your needs."
As someone who has been around since the DOS days, I can tell you that while there has been an uptick in more severe and ridiculous bugs the last few years, we are definitely nowhere even close to MSs worst.
Really this is just another loop around the old 'fire everyone with experience and hire cheaper labor' cycle that they like to do on a regular loop.
Fortunately I don't have this problem on any of my personal machines because I formatted all my Windows drives and migrated everything to Linux, which has been a far better experience. Running Bazzite on my gaming machine and Mint on my general use laptop. Also SteamOS on my handheld. Would recommend.
An Sqlite write-ahead log file? You can probably flush it manually.
Yea, you can't just select and delete it, even if you are the Admin. It needs further action.
Win95 was trash for a while. ME was always trash. OSX wasn’t great on release. Every Linux distro has had its time in the darkness.
I think 11 is going through some significant structural changes at a faster pace than before, while at the same time the natural greed of capitalism forced MS to get rid of things like large QA teams and support.
If MS were really interested they would begin open sourcing a lot of the things that don’t make them any money (calculator, clock, notepad, UI) and focus on the major items.
I just recently dealt with this on a coworkers pc. No doubt it will balloon back up and require me to remove it again. Theirs was at 96 gb and their drive was 500gb.
Binbows back at it again lmfao
