Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Fri, 2/7/2025 8:50 PM, Joel wrote:

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
 

[Windows 11 24H2 is in] public beta testing, just run 23H2 or better yet,
upgrade to Linux.

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"The latest issue centers around the Windows 11 24H2 preview update"
                                                    ^^^^^^^
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Yeah, we don't install those. Those are voluntary, in that you click
that if you think there is something in that update for you.
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It will appear again on Patch Tuesday, which would be the 11th of February.
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A valuable place to gather intelligence, is the Reliability Monitor,
which keeps certain kinds of failures in a chart form. Nobody seems to
have bothered in that article, to check for messages in there.
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That's an alternative to looking in EventVwr.msc .
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TO get there, open Settings and type "Relia" into the top search bar.

 
 
The preview update isn't the only bug I've heard about in Win12 I mean
11 24H2.  Honestly, having an actual good PC, that I assembled from
quality parts, I never encountered bugs with Win11 updates.  That
having been said, it seems worse since I deleted Win11 23H2 early in
that build's life.  Maybe if I'm not running Winblows, M$ expects
everyone else to be smart enough to follow the leader, well, I try, I
post here on COLA, I make Linux look cool, I talk to Copilot in a Web
app, but I can't just wave my hand and make people wake up to how
shitty Winblows is, and replace it.  So the stats remain with Windows
being heavily dominant.
 

The root cause of some of this, is the pattern I've spotted
where Microsoft is trying to take over all the proprietary
drivers. This is likely why USB DACs got broken. They didn't
get broken because the manufacturer sent an update. And the usual
USB parts of a PC, would have nothing to do with USB DAC health,
that would also not be affecting the operation of USB sticks
or USB disk enclosures and so on.

The USB DACs likely got affected, by some attempt to create a
class driver for the DACs, and failing at it.

But the rest of the symptoms, I don't see a locus there, to predict
where those problems are coming from. Usually the File Explorer
is relatively immune to the churn around it. And if you fouled up
a disk driver... the system isn't going to be able to boot. And the
class drivers for that, haven't been updated in years. It's because
of the simplicity of making read/write work on a disk.

   Paul