The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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I miss W7 and prior style Start Menu in windows, I know W10 onwards implemented it the way it did due to remnants of their pseudo tablet bullshit movement in W8, but it becoming the new standard sucks. Why the fuck do the alphabet headers take up as much row space as a single entry, why are the row entries themselves extremely oversized, Imagine if you opened up file explorer and every single file entry in a 100 file folder was 75 pixels high.
 
Slav Power said:
POST ABOUT WINDOWS TODAY
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What is there to post about? Another jeetslop update that breaks fundamental functionality? Microsoft cramming more AI shit into the core OS? The pile of registry hacks I have to maintain just to make this thing functional?
 
Fcret said:
What is there to post about? Another jeetslop update that breaks fundamental functionality? Microsoft cramming more AI shit into the core OS? The pile of registry hacks I have to maintain just to make this thing functional?
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Not much. I mean I posted about Microsoft's Azure fuck up this past week but it's not on the scale of AWS taking down big name services. The day I see "Winget updates broken" on the news headlines it's going to be a cold day in Los Angeles Hell.

It's a little old but Powershell now has better integration with AI tools via AI Shell. You can add your own choice of MCP server (MCP is a standard) from ChatGPT to something local of your own if you have it. So, you're in the Windows terminal, you want to use AI on local data of some sort (file systems, database, whatever). You can now do that in terminal, no copying and pasting data or anything. You can have it say look through your code base in a directory and analyse things for you, run powershell commands on your behalf, stuff like that. And given how Windows exposes pretty much every part of itself as an object and Powershell is designed to work seamlessly with objects (Lennart Poettering cries in envy), this is an easy step to further OS integration with AI at a very deep level.

This is a good example of the kind of duality going on right now. On a more outer view, everything seems boring, nothing to talk about. "Oh look, Microsoft have added a new "View My Benefits" link to the account panel so I can see my MS account extras" sort of stuff. Whilst at the same time, things are shifting in ways that will lead to wildly different mindsets and habits ten years down the line.

We're in the Eclipse Phase. That's the stage of viral infection after it's begun its infection but is still below detection.
 
I need some anodyne, soulless slop image for a slide I was working on, so I tried Copilot for the first time. It was really neat, walked me all the way through the process of generating an AI image before giving me an error message saying this feature is really popular now, but isn't working for an unknown reason, but I can send my feedback to Microsoft if I like.

I want everyone on this planet to die.
 
I like checking TechPowerUp for tech news, and there's something I've noticed...
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The most commented articles are ones complaining about Windows. And if you have a more neutral article, like this one which is about a fairly nice QoL feature added to Windows 11 that runs a memory scan post BSoD, something that happens very rarely on modern stable systems and could be caused by faulty memory, what comments do you see?
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Complaining!

At this point I'm convinced that you should ignore any and all news articles relating to Windows as they are made purely to get easy clicks as there seems to be a scarily large amount of people that love nothing more than to bitch about how bad Windows is and how evil Microsoft is. It is genuinely so fucking tiring to see news reporting getting completely drowned in this type of outrage baits. Any Microsoft related news has to be negative to get complainers to click it. Same with Nvidia and Intel, and now that the beloved AMD has done an oopsie daisy, people are complaining and overblowing shit again.
 
Slav Power said:
I like checking TechPowerUp for tech news, and there's something I've noticed...
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The most commented articles are ones complaining about Windows. And if you have a more neutral article, like this one which is about a fairly nice QoL feature added to Windows 11 that runs a memory scan post BSoD, something that happens very rarely on modern stable systems and could be caused by faulty memory, what comments do you see?
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Complaining!

At this point I'm convinced that you should ignore any and all news articles relating to Windows as they are made purely to get easy clicks as there seems to be a scarily large amount of people that love nothing more than to bitch about how bad Windows is and how evil Microsoft is. It is genuinely so fucking tiring to see news reporting getting completely drowned in this type of outrage baits. Any Microsoft related news has to be negative to get complainers to click it. Same with Nvidia and Intel, and now that the beloved AMD has done an oopsie daisy, people are complaining and overblowing shit again.
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What's this about localhost breaking?
Updated Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines.

The problem first surfaced on Microsoft's own support forums and quickly spread to Stack Overflow and Server Fault after the October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835) landed, which appears to have severed Windows' ability to talk to itself.

Developers describe HTTP/2 protocol errors and failed connections affecting everything from ASP.NET builds to Visual Studio debugging sessions.
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It's actually kind of impressive how quickly Microsoft has gone to shit. I bet within 5 years Windows will be completely unusable unless Microsoft fully restructures
 
Slav Power said:
Let's be honest: how many people who complain about these system breaking Windows 11 updates actually experienced it first hand to be so eager to post about it?
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Given this affected people attempting to serve HTTP2 from localhost specifically by localhost alias, and, if I'm inferring from @guiltyspark85 that this was just in a preview update (nobody should have that enabled on a machine you rely on), then not many for this specific one.

Not to excuse such failures, but I looked at the Register comments and it's filled with idiots writing "Micro$oft" and "Linux is that way -->" and all clapping each other on the back about it. If they were actually affected by it they'd be annoyed by it rather than celebrating.
 
Overly Serious said:
Given this affected people attempting to serve HTTP2 from localhost specifically by localhost alias, and, if I'm inferring from @guiltyspark85 that this was just in a preview update (nobody should have that enabled on a machine you rely on), then not many for this specific one.

Not to excuse such failures, but I looked at the Register comments and it's filled with idiots writing "Micro$oft" and "Linux is that way -->" and all clapping each other on the back about it. If they were actually affected by it they'd be annoyed by it rather than celebrating.
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Another thing worth noting is that when Windows 10 was around, these types of "system breaking issues" kept creeping up all the time but it didn't cause Windows 10 to completely fail and have everyone move to something else, or be despised as the "worst Windows ever". I swear most people just operate on emotions nowadays, it's frustrating.
 
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