Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Sat, 2/1/2025 7:07 PM, Joel wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

Many years ago, a software engineer named Fred Brooks predicted that
some systems could get so complex that they would exceed a manageable
threshold of complexity, where every attempt to fix a bug would just
create new ones.
>
Microsoft passed this point a long time ago. Read this
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-24h2s-wild-ride-some-fixes-are-in-but-other-bugs-still-linger/>
and think: how many times have you heard of this sort of thing, just
in the past year?

 
Good reasons to not use Winblows.
 

The 24H2 installed on the machine across the way from me,
without incident, about a week or two ago. There was nothing
of note, like new features that I can remember off hand.

My Daily Driver is still running 23H2.

And my Insider Disk is running 25H2, and it doesn't look
all that much different than 23H2.

All the OSes have a CoPilot icon, including the Win10 installs.
And, whether you have an MSA or not.

The CoPilot gave me a real golf whiff answer yesterday. I could
not believe an AI could write an answer like that. It did not
say "Sorry, I don't know the answer". But when I asked it about
the NTFS file system, rather than answer the question, it told
me to "get a hex editor and figure it out for yourself". Now,
isn't that why we invented AI ??? So... helpful. I would not
have thought of that, using my hex editor and reverse engineering
NTFS. I suppose the next answer will be "why don't you drive
to the Public Library and look that up, pal?".

I'm still waiting for my flying car (Jetsons). It will
have stubby wings, and tilt to one side as it goes around
corners.

Oh, and Facebook has taken the block off Distrowatch :-) Whew.
Who knew this timeline would have a happy ending. Single handedly,
Facebook almost wiped out the Year Of The Linux Desktop.

    Paul