Re: The problem With Windows

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:30:11 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 02:03 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:50:12 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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And they still use that today, I think.

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You bet.  I ran DISM trying to fix an 11 box with a perpetually failing
update and it needed a string of /this /that/ /theotherthing

 
 
Dang, what was the issue?

A hell of my own making.  When Windows 11 was on the horizon we wanted to
start testing with it. I'd signed up for the Windows Insider Developers
program, intending to stick it on a sacrificial machine for QA. Anyway my
main machine wound up being the one that got enrolled and once you've
crossed the bridge there's no going back without a clean install.

Other than the annoyance of getting an update about once a week it hasn't
been too bad although the update has sometimes broken minor things like
SQL Server. About a month ago the update failed and rolled back. Usually
the update dialog says 'Retry' which invariably fails. There is an
Insiders channel and it appears many people are stuck.

Sometimes you can turn of the Windows update service and bits, blow away
c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and get past the failure but that hasn't
been working. DISM was a last attempt at trying to expunge every reference
to the failing update with hopes of getting past it.

MS also has the Canaries channel which is equivalent to Fedora's Rawhide
are you feeling lucky? distro and supposedly the next update will be the
same for developers and canaries before the two channels split again.

I'd say screw it and reinstall 11 but it is my main work machine. It still
functions except for the stuck update so I don't care at this point. One
of MS's screw ups was pushing out a 'Windows Next' update that also failed
but would try again every night and reboot. At least they fixed that one
although it let the 'Next' (12?) cat out of the bag.

This is why my work Linux box is boring old Debian, my main home box is
almost as boring Ubuntu, and my screw around boxes are Fedora and Lubuntu.