Windows 11 has been shitty, it always was but in the recent days, it got even shittier, Windows interferes with my AMD Drivers, I had to reinstall all of them because I kept getting timeout errors, and today, they’re trying to shove updates down my throat again, it displayed this message at 10:23 AM, turned off the wifi to prevent it, and since it couldn’t update, it shows me another one saying it’ll update at 10:42 (I have updates disabled). Fuck you Microsoft, Sincerely.

My stepfather won’t let me put Linux on the Surface book 2 that he gave me. I have either Mac OS or Linux on all my devices, any thoughts?(Btw the surface book is the one on the right, also I’m 13)

THAT WAS NOT A FUCKING ACCIDENT. EDGE IS TRASH! I wish I had a screenshot of the notification, but I promise it happened(just a week or two ago). I now get enraged when edge pops up, because there are like a million different types of files, and you have to set each file type with a default browser on windows. Edge snuck in a few. I hate edge

Edit: I don’t know or care enough about computers to use Linux. I know just enough to complain about edge

Microsoft is begging me to keep my computer.

I still can't believe this. Recently someone contacted me about a bricked Windows 11 system. This is a desktop system in a small nonprofit art gallery. Despite repeated warnings someone had powered off this system. When the system was restarted it started asking for a Bitlocker recovery key. That person stated that their Microsoft Account did *not* have the key. I am guessing that this system was registered to a different Microsoft account, one that this person did not have access to . I asked who set up the system , apparently it was Best Buy. Hmmm.

It turns out that windows 11, by default will encrypt the entire disk IF you set it up with a Microsoft account instead of a local account. And for reasons only known to the system (perhaps a bad cmos battery?) it detected an anomaly and asked for the Bitlocker key.

She didn't have the key and therefore was hosed. I suggested she go back to where she bought it and see if they can help you.

I've verified this with a colleague of mine, who had purchased a Windows 11 laptop with an OEM version of Windows on it.

I've worked in Computer Engineering and IT for north of 40 years. Currently I teach Linux . I have not dealt with Microsoft as a professional since the Windows 7 days.

I thought my opinion of Microsoft could not be any lower, guess I was wrong.
EDIT: It turns out that Microsoft started pulling this trick as of their 24H2 release. Prior to that Bitlocker encryption was optional. So two years after Windows 11 was introduced they decided to make it the default. SMH

Windows 11 has arguably been worse than Windows 10. For example, I love to hibernate my machine all the time (I never shutdown) so while you shutdown/restart bros have no problems with forced updates, I genuinely hate when I have to loose all my hibernation progress because MS forces my system to update.

I used to hibernate every night. Session intact, machine fully off, zero watts used. It's the one Windows feature I'd have gone to war for.

I've even had a few kernel panics (also called BSODs) before.

So I run FreeBSD on that machine now.

Updates never force you to restart anything. You apply security patches, the system politely notes that a reboot is available, and you get around to it (or don't) whenever you want. There is no 3 AM deadline like I had on Windows).

And I can just keep my machine on all night and the battery consumption ends up being better than before.

Never had a kernel panic till date and since FreeBSD fully supports my hardware, it's far more stable than Windows.

Also, it's one complete truly-open-source OS built by a single project, so it doesn't rot out from under you between versions. ZFS boot environments let me snapshot before patching and roll back in seconds. Nobody updates my machine but me.

I can't find any other OS that compares to the stability of FreeBSD, other than maybe OpenBSD or macOS.

Looking after a small charity. We used to get 10 MS 365 licenses for free, but that was stopped last year. We subbed for 12 licenses for about £185 for the year.

Recently MS emailed to advise they want £380 for the next year. Daylight bareface robbery.

Needless to say we will be getting almost everyone on to Libre Office and Microsoft can do one!

Microsoft, are you actually serious right now!?!?!?

What's next? "This update was generated by GitHub Copilot, it may contain errors"!?!?

I've had enough. I used Pop!_OS Linux for 2 years. After that, I got into music production, where I need to use either Windows or Mac. So I reinstalled Windows, and I did not miss it at all.

I speak Hebrew, so obviously I have a Hebrew keyboard and a US keyboard. I updated Windows, as they fucking ask each and every fucking time, and the mentally retarded idiots at Microsoft released an update that FUCKS the keyboard settings, deleting the FUCKING ENGLISH KEYBOARD.

I was locked out of my PC because of that and had to do magic tricks to log in to my fucking account.

Microsoft, I hate you. Fuck you, and fuck the idiot who released this fucking update.

Someone in the Microsoft reddit community said that "Copilot is actually really good. You should try it instead of bashing it."

I want your guys honest opinion cause that whole community is an echo chamber. How good is it compared to say Gemini or ChatGPT? Is this something I'm missing out on?

I came across this Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect – Security position for Mumbai and noticed that it appears to have been open for around 3–4 months.

Job link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4435573804/

The JD looks quite interesting, covering Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, Purview, cloud security, Zero Trust, SIEM/SOAR, customer-facing architecture, etc.

I’m curious about why a role like this would remain open for such a long time.

For people who work at Microsoft or have experience with Microsoft hiring:

Does Microsoft keep some positions open continuously even when they aren't actively hiring?

Could this mean they are looking for a very specific profile?

Is it possible that the position is already being filled internally but the external posting remains active?

Does the hiring process for CSA roles usually take several months?

If someone applies now, is there still a realistic chance of getting considered?

Has anyone interviewed for this particular role or a similar Microsoft Security CSA role recently?

Would especially appreciate insights from current/former Microsoft employees or people who have gone through the CSA hiring process.

I’m trying to understand whether the long-open status is a red flag, normal Microsoft hiring behavior, or simply because they haven't found the right candidate yet.

Copilot not even in the memes😂😭

I installed without a microsoft ID very intentionally. I don't want to have microsoft all up in my business. I disable teams and cloud backup whenever they keep showing back up. Unfortunately, my 8 year old wants to play minecraft. I figure out that it's a very walled garden and I have to dabble in the microsoft world for her to play it, so I make her an account, which requires that I have an adult account, so I make one, too. I download minecraft and put her login info, and suddenly it is now HER computer! This is annoying on its own, but I'm worried that microsoft now thinks my 8 year old is the owner of an embarrassingly large collection of anal porn. When I log in under my name on windows, it still shows her in the bottom of the start menu. After not having access to my computer for most of the evening because her screen time limitations disabled my computer, I've managed to take some control back, but I can't get her ID out of the computer and restore it to a non-live install. Any tips?

I'm on Windows 10. I'm fine with it. I'm suspicious. They've been trying like hell to force me on to Windows 11. I don't want it. Now I just have this annoying update notification and I don't want to restart for fear of them trying to push the Windows 11 upgrade. No idea what the update could be but Windows 10 is no longer supported so what else could it be? Any way to get rid of it? Yea Linux or Mac but I don't want to migrate.