Hi. Microsoft employee here. That’s happening because we don’t give a shit and we are being replaced by folks from India
As someone working in the Microsoft ecosystem at an MSP, we seriously wonder what the fuck goes on over there. We’re supposed to defend everything y’all do which is getting really hard to justify without sounding like idiots.
Hey there. Learn how to stop carrying. A job doesn’t define who you are and you’re at least free to be anyone outside the working hours.
I learned to be a cog in this inhumane machine in exchange for a paycheck
Won’t someone please think of the investors…!
If you dive into who owns Microsoft, you’d be very surprised
I hope you’re having an amazing day! I am a windows fan and user, just like YOU! I will do my very best to help you solve your issue. I know you have had a bad experience and it must have been very hard for you. But rest assured, i will help you to the BEST of my ability!
Please try running the troubleshooter.
(troubleshooter doesn’t fix anything)
Try reinstalling windows. Goodbye!
And then they fuck off and stop reponding.
This is every forum response on MS forums, it’s infuriating.
“I have super specific error code with super specific driver that was changed with super specific windows update.”
“Me too!”
“Same, here’s some more info from event viewer”
“Maybe try uninstalling the device”
“Uninstall my WiFi card?”
“Hi I’m bob from Microsoft you should run sfc scan now and that will fix it”
“That didn’t fix it”
“Ok here’s how to reinstall windows”
It’s better than the Linux Mint support forums that blocks VPN users and the power users just deny that they’re blocking VPN users.
Also try SFC /scannow
And then try
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /ScanhealthandDISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealththat’ll get rid of the 9GB file for sure. If not, reinstall everything again and again and again.
This is the third update in like six months that is horribly broken. There was a windows 10 update that wouldn’t install because the recovery partition that Microsoft’s installer created was too small. The prior win 11 update just won’t install for lots of people and there’s no real rhyme or reason. Now this crap.
They just don’t give a shit anymore. Microsoft had a great run folks, time to move on.
Remember the dozens of times a Windows 10 update could potentially wipe your personal data?
Nothing that cannot be fixed by a Linux install.
For personal computing, sure. For enterprise environment, eh not really.
The only (larger) enterprises that insist “we depend on Windows” are those with shitty corporate IT :)
It’s an adoption problem. My company only supports windows because all our customers use windows. All our customers use windows because all their vendors only support windows.
Potential solutions:
- move to web-based SW - platform-agnostic, so it’s pretty easy to support other OSes (oh, and you get mobile almost for free)
- start submitting patches to get stuff working on macOS and Linux - once the barrier to supporting other OSes is low enough, they may let you officially support it
Or if you’re into online gaming.
I have to fend off linux nerds with a bat. The bottom line is “that’s cool and all but there are a lot of things that I can’t do with linux and I’m not willing to make that big of a change”
What are the issues? Genuine question.
Not the person you replied to but they’re probably talking about anti-cheat
I heard there were issues with those, but not sure on the specifics
Reading all this makes me sad; and I’m relieved to have switched to Mac years ago…
Me when I move from cheap spyware to premium spyware.
Yeah, I’ve been avoiding this stuff the past few months by only letting my laptop online for quick essentials things. It’s windows, I can’t replace it with a mac so it’s gotta be linux. Most online stuff I can do on my phone. But I can’t put it off forever; I’m going to have to try the linux dual boot thing sooner or later. I’ve been putting it off because I’ve not used linux since the 90s and I really don’t have time to re-learn. Gotta be done tho.
Edit - your semicolon inspired me to try one of my own!
Just a warning, Windows doesn’t always play nice when installed on the same drive as Linux. If you have two drives, try installing them on different ones. If not, there’s a risk that a Windows update can mess some things up. Usually it’s fine, just I’ve had issues with it and so have others.
Anyway, Linux is really easy now. I would recommend something with KDE, like the Fedora KDE spin as an example. KDE is very familiar to Windows users, though very customizable if you want too. It should be a very easy transition, as long as you go in not expecting it to be identical to Windows. You have to meet it where it is, which does require relearning a few things.
If you have questions feel free to ask. There’s also plenty of other users on Lemmy who would be happy to help.
Linux is a lot, lot, lot easier to use now than the 90s.
Linux Mint. You are welcome.
How is fractional scaling on Mint? On Ubuntu 24.04 it’s really crap (slow, blurry, flickering cursor, weird artifacts etc)
You could fit an entire modern OS in that space, together with all the drivers, a web browser, an office suite, graphics editor, an IDE and a compatibility layer for running Windows applications.
Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.
I can’t imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that’s nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS…
All this shit is because some exec had a revelation that windows didn’t need QA anymore.
There was a former employee that talked about it, they moved from actually testing on real hardware to automated VM testing and started missing a lot more
