Re: The Reality Of Microslop

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:20:42 -0500, Joel wrote:

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
 

From the link:
>
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1713234/microsoft-would-really-

like-you-to-stop-using-windows-10-this-year

>
"Windows 11 is no longer a stand-alone operating system, Windows 11 is
an advertising platform that's still stuck with the Windows NT kernel,
network stack fiddledybits liberally borrowed from BSD (while giving
absolutely nothing back in return), and a bunch of user space garbage
they keep changing to try to convince you it's "NEW!".
(Which is a deception at best, rearranging the deck chairs on the
Titanic for most,
and outright lies, damned lies, and forced upgrades at worst.) And the
TPM2.0 ruse is complete corporate garbage."

 
 
The Winfanboys will say just keep running Win10, as if it's a solution,
Linux is the only meaningful refuge.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/microsoft_2025_windows_refresh/

Buying a Windows 11 box and reverting it to 10 is a bit extreme.

"Canalys analyst Kieren Jessop even told The Register in an earlier
interview that it wasn't uncommon for enterprises to "downgrade their
newly procured Win11 devices to Win10" because the aging OS was more
stable and had greater compatibility with other systems."

Other than a couple of Insider builds I haven't had problems will 11. I
brought my two work machines up to 24H2 with no drama.

Along those lines I upgraded the Fedora box to 41 with no problem after
fixing a nagging little quirk. I had installed Fedora on the HDD and moved
it to the new SSD. On a reboot it was a crapshoot what I would wind up
with. I unplugged the HDD's SATA cable and all was good. One of the
stranger features was sometimes having the HDD sda3 mounted as /home,
sometimes the SSD sdb3.

I do not consider that a Fedora or Linux problem, only a weird hardware
problem I created myself.