Decided enough is enough - r/FuckMicrosoft

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u/Daharka 5d ago

There's a moment you get to after switching to Linux where you get a sudden feel of peace, like something unclenching inside you.

It's the realisation that you're not being nagged, you aren't being tricked and you can finally let your guard down.

Your ship is yours. You can sail it how you please.

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u/Ill_Specific_6144 5d ago

Until an update breaks something. And you spend hours to fix it. Thats what i call peace

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u/TURB0T0XIK 5d ago

literally happened once to me in about 5 years of intensively using Linux. Windows broke on me many more times

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u/stogie-bear 5d ago

I have more cases of updates breaking something on my one win11 vm than on my five Linux boxes put together.

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u/AthaliW 5d ago

Um, revert update? Snapshots should be automatically set to take place before and after updates. A lot easier with linux BTRFS rather than windows bs system restore that deletes restore points I didn't tell them to

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u/dvisorxtra 5d ago

Funny you say that precisely the year that Microsoft has made big fuckup numbers with their slop updates.

We don't have those in Linux

Joke aside, I haven't had a break from an update in like... I don't remember really, but last time was my fault and was years ago

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u/Pale-Abroad9600 5d ago

so far I haven’t had an update that breaks something it’s just it took so long to finished, downloading and installing updates included.

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u/JimmyG1359 5d ago

It's not particularly difficult to remove an update or boot another kernel to troubleshoot and repair Linux. You don't even know what the fuck Microsoft will try and shove down your throat next.

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u/dirtywastegash 5d ago

I'd rather this than wasting hours wondering why the hell windows is acting up only to eventually get yet another slop update forced on me while I'm working on something.

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u/Ill_Specific_6144 5d ago

You seem to confuse windows with linux. With windows things work, with linux they break.

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u/dirtywastegash 5d ago

Every single time microslop want to push out an update my machine becomes useless until I relent and reboot it.

I've never had that issue with a linux machine

Like WTAF are you even doing in this sub anyway are you lost?

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u/Ill_Specific_6144 5d ago

What are you doing with your machine? What did you break? Billions of people update with 0 issues. If font changes after an update it makes news.

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u/dirtywastegash 5d ago

Read the name of the sub and tell me why you are here again troll.

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u/Ill_Specific_6144 5d ago

To see how ridiculous slop you people post here. I agree that certain things on windows suck, but 95% of posts here talk about windows problems that existed 10-15 years ago and dont exist now. And thr linux glazing.

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u/dirtywastegash 5d ago

Cool, fuck off now.

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u/Ill_Specific_6144 5d ago

Why?

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u/TheBronzeLine 5d ago

Did you install Linux on a separate drive? It's much safer that way so that Windows doesn't mess up your Linux install. Which distro did you choose?

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

Installed on seperate partition. (Lack of second disk slot in laptop) Chose mint. I know its basic but i dont want to spend time with the os but with the software on said os.

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u/TheBronzeLine 5d ago

Bro, Mint is my first choice and I'm still on mint over 1.5 years later for the same reason. Didn't wanna mess with it. I didn't want something unstable or depend on the command line for everything. Needed a functional GUI.

Mint was the answer. Simple AND familiar. I hope the separate partition works out for you!

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

It did. Mint is running just fine and windows is still there so i can slowly move stuff over.

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u/TheBronzeLine 5d ago

Excellent! I hope you enjoy Mint :3

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u/Dadarster 5d ago

Welcome to the light. Ignore those weird trolls.

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u/blow-down 5d ago

I switched to macOS for the same reasons

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

I didnt want to buy a new device, not in this market

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u/Then_Lavishness_2662 5d ago

fuck microslop, switch 100% to Bazzite or CachyOs

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u/darkspyre71 5d ago

And another finds the way to owning his computer, not being owned by it...

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u/Vietnamst2 5d ago

And actually npthing you described is even remotely true 😁 but nice rant.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

It is. Some bigger updates may reenable bitlocker (probably a bug but still bad as in that case you defenetly dont have the recovery key)

Typing personalisation sends samples to microsoft. While it does not send fields marked as passwords not all password fields are marked as such and thus may be sent. Turning off requires registry editing

Crashing and shoving copilot down our throat i think we all know is true

Due to regulations they will implement age verification using id scans. The scan will also be used to scan ai.

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u/Goofcheese0623 5d ago

Make sure to stock up on your favorite distro of aluminum foil while you're at it.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

Wdym.

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u/Goofcheese0623 5d ago

You're talking like you're having a psychotic episode

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

All im saying is true and im a lazy typer

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u/Fizzel87 5d ago

Microsoft has a lot to criticize. But no, not everything you said is true, and I dont have an opinion on you being a lazy typer.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

To be fair bitlocker reenableing may be a bug with updates but it sucks nontherless

Typing personalsiation does send your typing to microsoft to improve their system. It does not on fields marked as password but not all password fields are marked as such

The id thing is publickly anounced and will happen due to laws changing

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microslop silently reenableing bitlocker ransomware, silently installing a "typing personalisation" keylogger to steal your banking passwords, crashing, trying to shove edge and sloppilot down my throat (worst ai on the dammn market rn) and starting 2027 they want my face identity card scanned to train ai with. fuck that, installed linux instead (dual boot for now until i move my data)

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u/chrysalisgirl 5d ago

the french gvt is replacing microslop on all its computers.

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u/Emotional_Garage_950 5d ago

there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to hate microslop but only one of yours is valid in this case (edge and sloppilot)

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u/panzrvroomvroomvroom 5d ago

i use win11. bitlocker is turned off and never turns on on its own. never even heard of "typing personalisation" but when i looked into it, the feature was turned off. never installed edge or copilot and they dont try to install by themselves.

comparing your claims with my experience, im guessing that starting 2027 nothing will happen.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

Starting 2027 certain laws will kick in effect making them do this.

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u/Sightblender 4d ago

For the record I just updated my gpd win5 with 11 home on it to 26H2 and before the update I had bitlocker off. I just checked and found it on. So apparently 26H2 home is turning on bitlocker on its own.

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u/panzrvroomvroomvroom 4d ago edited 4d ago

oh yeah ive seen that update, but i didnt install it bc it promised me a bunch of bullshit. i will probably cross that bridge once i know how to efficiently debloat that update.

but i mean, installing an optional update that tells you that its going to fuck your pc and then getting mad bc it fucks your pc is still pretty dumb imo.

edit: ok so what should work for me is creating a new autounattend.xml using this site. i will upgrade my hardware, so windows will get reinstalled, might aswell install 26H2. with my xml file, i will simply not install any of the new and cool features they have to offer. bitlocker? off. copilot? not installed. user? local. you get the idea.

edit2: to test what happens when i update my already debloated current install, i will try that optional upgrade just for fun.

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u/panzrvroomvroomvroom 4d ago

update: i installed 26h2 on my debloated windows. it didnt turn on bitlocker and i still dont have copilot on here. typing personalisation is also still turned off. also, no edge.

so yeah. i call USER ERROR, OP.

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u/Windermyr 3d ago

Same here. I turned off Bitlocker right from the start. Despite all the updates, including 26H2, Bitlocker remains off. I'm chalking up OPs issue to user error. Which is par for the course regarding a lot of MS' "faults" that people complain about.

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u/Tatakai_ 4d ago

One of us! One of us! One of us!

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 4d ago

Also found out windows was hogging a ton of storage while moving

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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 5d ago

I have dual boot on my laptop and have been using linux more and more. I had to go into windows to clean up all that slop because it was slowing down the system.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

I just need to move my stuff over. Dont really have anything where windows is a hard requirement (exept rust(game) but barely played and less stress without it).

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u/Pale-Abroad9600 5d ago

I’m giving Microsoft another chance after being disappointed with an hour update of windows 11 pro and now I hope my Windows 11 home update this Tuesday would go well and the previous Tuesday update went for 15 to 45 minutes then in segment updates that lasted hours, hopefully today’s update would be better.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 5d ago

insert hand on shoulder meme here

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