• beepnoise@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    This isn’t the first time they’ve pushed an update which crashes PCs.

    IIRC, the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware, so it’s like “well yeah, duh, no wonder why you keep releasing updates that crash & freeze end users machines”

    Between shit like this, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft Recall I wonder why anyone even bothers with Windows anymore. I have both Mac and Linux (both which I love equally). Both of them don’t seem to have anywhere near these levels of issues - Macs I would hope not given the eye-watering amount I’ve spent on it, and Linux I could be forgiven if it did give me hassle, but no.

    • blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Between shit like this, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft Recall I wonder why anyone even bothers with Windows anymore

      Out of necessity most likely, sometimes you either have no alternatives for proprietary software on Linux, or it’s extremely cumbersome to get and maintain such software on Linux.

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      7 days ago

      the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware

      And yet there’s a recent update that keeps killing my Windows VMs. They’ll run for a while then one day they install the update and won’t boot again. It really feels like MS have lost control of Windows testing these days.

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      7 days ago

      Because they put micro effort to test their sofware before production as Micro$oft name suggest