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Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:
… People are still using Windows?
Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.
Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It’s not even worth mentioning. It’s not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they’ll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it’s not a big issue. That’s this. That’s this exact thing.
Came here to say “Well, maybe they’re corrupting your data.”
I use “incontrol” to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.
Well yes, but actually this is a security update
Look at it from the flip side: Linux is so bad people would rather deal with this than deal with Linux.
Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member “I’m too old to learn a new operating system!” Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.
Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.
Lies! Linux never has issues!
My laptop’s Linux install currently isn’t corrupt and won’t boot, honest!
Disclaimer: I actually like Linux a lot, JFC the windows hate is crazy…
The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
Are you suggesting the drives are accessed more slowly before this update?
Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.
That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.
Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.
How’s that vibe coding working out for ya?
It looks like finally after almost ten years they will complete the dark mode on windows. But some buttons will still be with the light theme, they ran out of ai credits and need to wait for next month to replenish the free tier
Didn’t they proudly say how much of windows is AI generated slop code a few months ago?
I think it has more to do with the new atomic update and their now-usual not-testing aproach.
Linux users: “See what we mean?”
Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!”
Linux users: “See what we mean?”
Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is a standard Windows feature!”
Your account seems to be marked as a bot, you can fix that in your user settings if it was unintentional
I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I’m pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.
This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe. And don’t worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows “virgin” until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.
the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs
Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?
Windows 11 only comes in 64 bit flavors so this would be a weird feature to leave in place.
I’m not using any software that doesn’t have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?
So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd?
I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.
Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn’t remove people’s data that one time. And hey, their so beloved
--no-preserve-rootdidn’t prevent that from happening. :DI love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.
If something like
del C:\*.*somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn’t stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.rm shouldn’t exist at its current form. Full stop.
There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.
“You mean if I delete data, then it’s gone? No matter what platform?”
Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data
I mean, it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is
rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.
$ su - # rm -rf —no-preserve-root /Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)
Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.
Windows treats users like a product.
Cause we are to them. We are nothing more than monetized eye balls.
Not with GNU rm, no.
“We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too”
Is this an automatic update that I can stop ?
The company managed to resolve the issue later and has deployed a fix.
If I was a librarian and my card catalog started exploding, I would have a fit. Those are not easy to put together.
Yeah but luckily by the mid 80s it was completely digitized and just there in the basement for reference.
That’s not my data.
Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.
They’re using Grok to translate?
They probably used copilot to write the code. It compiled so they shipped it.
Take that deniers!
“You have destroyed the very thing you swore to become” also works.
I suppose, but reading the article, it seems this was related to a windows defender update. In other words the anti-virus became malware, again.
Again? I swear I saw this a month or two ago.
Can’t they just offer access to your data back at a discounted rate compared to what they charge their data partners for it?
It got me!. I turn crypto services off and it keeps turning back on. What a pain in the ass!
