Yet another Microslop moment
Doubly so this is why I fear for the future of Linux dev if AI generated development is the future.
Today on Microslop…
Genuine question: how the hell does this keep happening? Don’t they have any quality control, any testing, competent management, quality engineers, years of experience, or anything at all?
They fired their QA department in 2015 relying on telemetry of users to diagnose issues. Then last year they boasted a third of all their code is AI generated. You don’t have millions of lines of code over 2+ decades and have a high quality standard of a third of that was generated in 2 years.
They merged their QA department with Bethesda, raising the head count to 0.
I wager the “third of code is AI generated” was perhaps a twist of the truth to advertise for AI in general.
That said, an OS on AI generated code is not a good thing, and it shows regardless of what % is actually AI generated.
Well now Idk about that…it’s assumedly trained on the entire Microsoft archive of code. Probably also trained on everything in GitHub, too.
I wouldn’t doubt an LLM’s ability to churn out lots of lines of code and add-on half the original LOC’s in random Windows Crap.
Also, have you seen Windows 11? Damn near unrecognizable from Windows 10 20H2, let alone 1507. And a lot of that is absolute crap updates like hiding the original legacy tools and putting in worthless apps that look nice but can’t do half the crap that they could before (looking at you,
ncpa.cpl)…but at least the original tools are just “hidden”, not removed. Yet.I will say, I do like PowerShell lately. Probably more than bash (as in, all other things equal, I can either turn on a Windows PC to write a shell script, or a Linux PC to write a shell script, to do the same thing…the only reason I’d prefer bash would be because I wouldn’t have to use Windows…). Not as much as Python, but that’s kinda apples/oranges.
Easy work. Me and my Bazzite instance will keep on trucking.
I had ONE bad update… good thing Bazzite keeps a backup. Never figured out what went wrong. Now, the Firefox bug is my nemesis. Every time it loads I go from 10Gb free to ZERO in about 10 minutes. Chromium… works. That’s all I’ll say about that program.
skip windows
“Just works,” eh?
Windows “just works” the way Microsoft wants you to just work it.
macOS is the same way, but they also haven’t made stupid sweeping changes that break decades of muscle memory, solely for aesthetic purposes…Like whatever the fuck they call paintbrush now, taking away the Alt+F and Ctrl+S keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.
That’s why I like Linux, really. It feels kinda…idk…hostile(?)…using Windows lately. Like there’s a tension in the air between me and my computer. As in, Linux behaves the way I tell it to behave. It knows the rules and so do I. The computer is subservient to me. Windows (and macOS…but to a lesser extent, because I’m not nearly as strong in it as I am the other two) act like they are in charge.
And even if I don’t want to customize it, there’s a thousand different OOBE’s out there for Linux, surely one will work the way that I want it to.
Gnome is a great example. The Meta+LeftClick+Drag operation for moving windows, and Meta+MiddleClick+Drag for resizing? Chef’s kiss. Lot’s of DE’s incorporate some variant of that now. Workspace view (or whatever it is called you get when you press Meta in Gnome) is another feature sorely missing from Windows.
Get used to using that and then go back to Windows.
Hell even Tiling WM’s. How long did it take Windows to get (modern) tiling, and how ass-poor is it? Seriously, Hyprland (at least on CachyOS) has got to be the absolute slickest out-of-the-box-experience I’ve had with a DE. Tiling in Windows feels like it hasn’t seen an improvement since probably Windows 3.1…and even in 11, it’s only halfway decent if you install PowerToys.
It blows my mind that Windows is the default OS for general business/productivity tasks. Absolutely the worst of the (major) three in every aspect of productivity.
My magic desk rocks should not be telling ME what to do. I should tell THEM to delete my root partition.
Haven’t quite done that yet, but i did need to reinstall arch about 3 times before i got it right. About 5 years with no 15 minute+ issues thus far.
I’ve done that, and thensome…
It was literally my first foray into Linux, circa 1997, I think…I was definitely in middle school, maybe 7th grade.
I’d just gotten my RedHat CD in the mail from some website I had found that accepted COD and charged scantly more than the cost of time & materials to produce.
I installed it on my PC alongside windows and learned how to use fstab to mount my Windows Partition automatically when I boot into it! Sweet! Next I wanted to figure out how to start X-Windows and couldn’t find instructions in the Linux book I’d gotten from the library.
Naturally I booted into Windows, hopped on EFnet #Linux, and asked in there. One guy answered me and I wrote it down so I could boot into Linux and try it out.
I should also add that at this point in time, I had not yet learned about the value of not using root for everything.
Once in Linux, I typed it out…
rm -rf /. Logged in as root. Windows partition automatically mounted. Seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought it would…maybe I can see what thermcommand says in the book?Oh…Oh no…
(The correct answer was
startx.startx.)I will say that I’ve distrohopped quite a bit and it was just this past week that I decided to try out CachyOS (and Hyprland), after being very well settled into Fedora…and the installation was probably the most difficult of any I’d done recently, but that was almost entirely on me…I’ve used Arch-based distros before, I’ve used calamares before…this was different. It was because I wanted to preserve my old /var partition, or at least my /var/lib/libvirt…and the installer kept freaking out about it. Ultimately I ended up just deleting everything except /var/lib/libvirt out of the partition before running the installer and it went fine. The time prior to that, I thought I’d try Cachy in a VM, and it refused to install several times. I think that actually might’ve just been my computer’s first signs that I had a failing stick of RAM, because it wasn’t long after that that the whole system started to decline…
LOL
Oh, Microslop… How far you have sunk.
Fuck Windows. 2026 truly is the year of Linux. Finally!
Hell yeah made the move myself at the end of last year and am loving it
Haven’t they said they’re going to cater to complaining user base? That’s like the opposite of that 😬
Gotta love that AI generated, reviewed, and shipped code.
Just when I thought Windows couldn’t get worse.
And users are the QA department.
Lucky me, I’m stuck on 24H2.
I put a few hours into poring over various log files, trying to decipher vague error messages, before finally saying “fuck it.”
skip microsoft altogether
Just switch to Linux guys, stop being abused.
Thanks for the heads-up, I’ll be sure to not update my OpenSUSE install to Windows 11 👍
I want so badly to switch to Linux on my main machine, but I have some projects of my on Adobe InDesign, anyone has an actual good alternative that can read InDesign files?
Duel boot until you can ween yourself off. You can use both.
Switch to linux but keep your old windows on a partition or different hard drive for whenever you want to work on that stuff.
Can you not use wine or proton to run InDesign? I don’t know shit about shit though, I’m still using CS2 😂
For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can’t skip a Windows update. It’s going to happen no matter what.
I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren’t going to do any of that.
I could have done it and I didn’t. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.
Even registry changes won’t stop their stomping. My final straw was changing the drivers for AMD for the fifth time, despite editing the registry, sending console commands, and exiting settings. MS drivers just bulldozed right over them. I said fuck it, set up another ssd with Bazzite, dual booted, and three months ago converted the Windows drive to a VFAT, after not booting Windows for a full year. I miss Fusion 360, that is all. I do not miss the headaches. Linux took time to setup, time to learn, and time to personalize. I still think it saved me time overall with how few problems arise, however.
It’s an optional update. It doesn’t automatically install without activating the option to do so.
You can pause Windows updates, although I’m not sure I would suggest it because they are usually patching a baotlad of security vulns.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/updates-lifecycle/pause-updates-in-windows
Not defending Microsoft in any way, just pointing out that the option exists. Of course you will get updates once it unpauses, but maybe another CU down the line won’t break shit.
I’ve tried everything it eventually doesn’t update all on its own regardless of you wanting to do it or not. So I just stop trying to fight it.
