edit: bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone found it after I forgot to save the link: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable-to-install-updates-unless-battery-is/99bb073a-948e-4ccf-b14f-46e192fac457
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Found the post on the forums. The screenshot omits the comment from Craig who said “I ended up wiping windows and installing Ubuntu instead”.
I found this reply helpful too, and so should you.
Hehe.
Thank you, I’ve updated the post body.
By the way, Lemmy also lets you update the post image itself.
The Microsoft support forums are on a whole level of their own, when it comes to being useless.
sfc /scannowand the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck all, and compared to the usual systemd journal, the event log rarely gives you any useful information whatsoeversfc /scannowand the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck allHey, that’s not true! sfc takes forever to run, so it’s a good way to waste time and get even more frustrated.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealthand pray it fixes everything before you reinstall.I have never had ms troubleshoot button or autofix button ever do anything but return “no problems found”. And yes, I’ve also tried it in every one of those 20 control panels.
Sometimes it makes a network connection work temporarily.
Ask about a specific error code on a windows forum: unhelpful boilerplate nonsense.
Ask about the vaguest symptoms of a recurring problem on a linux forum: a neckbeard wizard will show up and have you type 30 cryptic commands in your terminal and everything will be fixed.
The funniest part about this is that almost every linux installation is totally different from every other one, whereas every windows installation is almost identical.
But really, I certainly wouldn’t enter any random commands I was given from the internet on a linux machine unless I knew damn well what they did.
I’m John from Microsoft and I have over 25 years of experience.
Please update your drivers and run run sfc /scannow.
I hope that helps,
John
That’s right, linux is terrible since you have to use terminal. Microsoft doesn’t have terrible things like terminal. Just copy paste these commands into run.
Into Cmd, super commandline or super commandline 2?
I think now it’s Windows Cloud Commander 11000, soon to be re-integrated into your Office 366 account. Elevated privileges require a premium subscription.
I found more help in stack overflow for windows related issues compared to Microsoft.
I’ve never had a case where running that fixed anything. I get it makes sense to verify system integrity but I’m guessing the OS already does that on its own once in a while.
It does when there is system corruption. You first need to find the thing that caused the corruption though
This is a huge upside of Linux. When something breaks you can make a web search and learn how to fix it, or that it’s unfixable. On windows you make a search and all you get is this bs and seo article spam
or that it’s unfixable
Just out of interest. What are some of these unfixable issues?
Usually hardware support
It is not unfixable. The fix includes writing your own drivers.
Semi-relevant xkcd, but replace the last sentence with “Oh, he just wiped Windows and installed Ubuntu? Uh, cool, that works too.”
“What about DropBox? It’s this recent startup…”
Man, sometimes I forget how long xkcd’s been going
Honestly a month ago me and my friend were looking at microsoft forums. One of which was somebody asking why tiktok was preinstalled in windows 11. Forum admin replied that it was bloat from a manufacturer of the hardware. It was a homebuilt computer and fresh copy of windows 11 home.
28 more people said windows 11 did this by default, the admin eventually realized it was not accidental or a fluke. Which he previously eluded to.
Shows the current state of windows 11
They should’ve told them to run sfc /scannow
User: Hi! I’m having a problem. The
sfccommand doesn’t work. Is there a solution to this?Microsoft Support: * panics *
The most pissing thing is that the Microsoft “support” forum is always the top search result. Sometimes it occupies 5 or more of the top search results.
…but I haven’t had to deal with that since I switched to Linux last year, so…yay!
Even more infuriating are those messages marked [FIXED] when the freaking post had a negative response or no response at all from the user.
Those forums should be full of endless posts marked [PENDING] or [EXPIRED].CLOSED (Reason: No interaction)
That makes it sound like the fault is on the user side.
When there’s no interaction it’s usually because the user gave up.
The marker should be something that makes it clear that the responses were not helpful.
Saw one earlier today where the “community support” person opened with “please make sure you have applied all Windows updates”. Given that it was a web page issue and I was on my phone I didn’t mark this reply as helpful.
I swear there’s a weird fetish going around Redmond where their only release is to get you to run SFC /scannow
I mean the guy’s name is literally Mac DePriest, so either MacOS or Temple OS.
need to see the source lmao
Please updoot another commenter who sent it first instead. And, also, take a long look at the issue as it’s hilarious too. Just like theirs, my laptop would try to update every reboot and cancel it seeing less than 40% battery because the battery is, well, long dead and the laptop is plugged into a wall socket all the time. Once a safeguard against idiots it grew idiotic itself.
omg that’s hilarious, truly a windows moment
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