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

[StacticShock]

I just don't think 11 has any way of being fixed without reimplementing every application in something that isn't a fucking web browser.

windows 11 is a problem because of the touch interface, they refused to learn with windows 8/phone and the current jeets in there will force AI and if the leaks are true, subscription to windows 12, it will go as well as it has been going with windows 11, it has to be slapped as standard in order to be sold as a good thing but every update breaks something horribly the media always ups to 11 (kek) just to get stakeholder clicks, which in turn makes the jeet-in-chief to get a few phonecalls.

 

[Voloromir of bad Yuristan]

Giving their investors a pointer that they're doing something, since investors don't see all the shit that changed in Windows 10 for all the time it's been out under the hood

I think that it's more related to forcefully making public administrations to buy new license packages, if they were able to use their 2015 computers forever, they wouldn't need to invest billions in new computers equipped with new licenses, it's really not about the common man, but the business to business and public administration.
Have in mind that 11 came with requirements that made 3yo computers incompatible with it, so that was a move to make people upgrade to the new hardware and benefiting OEMs, basically some sort of mafia move to make money for everyone involved in the process, so even though the license number is the same, since most people have OEM licenses they can't just put it on a new computer, because the hardware changes would trigger the license checker and invalidate it.

 

[The Ugly One]

so then what the fuck was the point of making 11 besides inflicting pain onto the goyim

1. Support for big.Little CPUs. My retard-level understanding of this is that supporting heterogeneous CPUs required enough low-level changes that it made more sense to ship it as a new OS rather than a Win 10 update.
2. UI updates. Win 10 UI had some serious issues with intelligibility, and in general, MS doesn't significantly revise a UI without calling it a new OS.
3. Security requirements. Among other things, passkeys are becoming a new default standard, and using them securely requires a TPM, which Win 10 supported, but did not require. Like it or not, Microsoft is the world's IT, and twisting people's arms to get them off old, insecure systems rather than hoping people will finally, after 30 years of being told not to, stop using p@ssw0rd123, was IMO the right move.
4. Driver integrity requirements. Win 11 has a number of requirements for drivers that Win 10 didn't have that ensure memory integrity and reduce attack surfaces. This is something that couldn't be grafted onto Win 10 without breaking everything. Overall, driver-related crashes are way down, and malware that exploited unsafe memory accesses in drivers has been neutralized.

I think that it's more related to forcefully making public administrations to buy new license packages, if they were able to use their 2015 computers forever, they wouldn't need to invest billions in new computers equipped with new licenses, it's really not about the common man, but the business to business and public administration.

The Win 11 upgrade was free. You didn't need to buy a new license package.

 

[Moist Boys]

malware that exploited unsafe memory accesses in drivers has been neutralized.

It's all going to be AI coded in Rust by 2030. What could go wrong?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/my-goal-is-to-eliminate-every-line-of-c-and-c-from-microsoft-by-2030-microsoft-bets-on-ai-to-finally-modernize-windows

 

[George Lucas]

so then what the fuck was the point of making 11 besides inflicting pain onto the goyim

Microsoft felt supporting Windows 10 was a liability.

 

[Slav Power]

It's all going to be AI coded in Rust by 2030. What could go wrong?

Shitty clickbait journalism spreading blatant misinformation could go wrong. The clarification is barely visible and the original misinforming headline remains unchanged, and since people never read these articles they just run with what the headline says and assume the article itself has some authority. "A single employee of Microsoft" is not "Microsoft", yet all articles like these based themselves on the lie that what Galen Hunt said on his LinkedIn is an official company statement. If the reporting was objective then you wouldn't have clicked on the article or link it around.

But I guess blindly believing everything journos say is suddenly okay when it comes to this one topic you personally dislike, but when they lie about KF being a harassment site that kills people gets your panties in a twist, no? Rules for me, not for thee? Yeah nah, at this point you're justifying all journo lies by choosing to believe in the ones that you personally like to believe.

 

[Moist Boys]

Did I ever think that they would shoehorn Copilot into notepad.exe, Recall tracking your every move or have agentic AI in Windows? I don't blindly hate Microsoft, but this doesn't seem something too far off that Microsoft would try in the future.

 

[George Lucas]

Did I ever think that they would shoehorn Copilot into notepad.exe, Recall tracking your every move or have agentic AI in Windows? I don't blindly hate Microsoft, but this doesn't seem something too far off that Microsoft would try in the future.

All rewrites are doomed to failure. It’s pretty well-known in software engineering that rewrites for the sake of rewrites are a terrible idea.

 

[guiltyspark85]

Did I ever think that they would shoehorn Copilot into notepad.exe, Recall tracking your every move or have agentic AI in Windows? I don't blindly hate Microsoft, but this doesn't seem something too far off that Microsoft would try in the future.

I'm not a fan of AI features and how they're being integrated into Windows. But generally speaking a lot of end users do use AI so is does make sense adding these features, as badly implemented as they are. I can't see any benefit for the end user in rewriting vast amounts of existing C/C++ code in Rust. When I read the LinkedIn post it was fairly obvious some pie in the sky ambition of a Rust fanatic, not something Microsoft as a whole were planning.

 

[Miller]

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Shitty clickbait journalism spreading blatant misinformation could go wrong. The clarification is barely visible and the original misinforming headline remains unchanged, and since people never read these articles they just run with what the headline says and assume the article itself has some authority. "A single employee of Microsoft" is not "Microsoft", yet all articles like these based themselves on the lie that what Galen Hunt said on his LinkedIn is an official company statement. If the reporting was objective then you wouldn't have clicked on the article or link it around.

But I guess blindly believing everything journos say is suddenly okay when it comes to this one topic you personally dislike, but when they lie about KF being a harassment site that kills people gets your panties in a twist, no? Rules for me, not for thee? Yeah nah, at this point you're justifying all journo lies by choosing to believe in the ones that you personally like to believe.

Oh it will happen. You will see a Windows vibe-coded by one jeet using Rust and Artificial Indians.

 

[long waters]

It happened twice to me in the last week that windows just completely froze up. Granted, I had a lot of stuff open and I'm not sure if it was Steam, Brave or something else acting up. Might also be my CPU dying, it is a 13k series i7...

But somehow I have a feeling it might actually be a bad omen related to my SSD. It's an old 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus and it's closing in on 20k hours, 73TBW, and health status is at 96%... I think I need to prepare for the possibility of it going tits up in the near future.
PS: wait a second, just googled this, it's nowhere near MTBF stats. Should be 600TBW and over a million hours?! Maybe it is the CPU.

 

[Baraka Obama]

It happened twice to me in the last week that windows just completely froze up. Granted, I had a lot of stuff open and I'm not sure if it was Steam, Brave or something else acting up. Might also be my CPU dying, it is a 13k series i7...

But somehow I have a feeling it might actually be a bad omen related to my SSD. It's an old 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus and it's closing in on 20k hours, 73TBW, and health status is at 96%... I think I need to prepare for the possibility of it going tits up in the near future.
PS: wait a second, just googled this, it's nowhere near MTBF stats. Should be 600TBW and over a million hours?! Maybe it is the CPU.

Are you running any kind of overclock or timing tweaks? Some times those are fine at first but over time as hardware ages they become unstable.

Other than that I would start with bad RAM as unfortunate as the timing of that would be. If you can pull out a module and see if you get the problem again, if so try another module, and continue until you nail it down to a single module or rule out RAM altogether.

 

[long waters]

Are you running any kind of overclock or timing tweaks? Some times those are fine at first but over time as hardware ages they become unstable.

Other than that I would start with bad RAM as unfortunate as the timing of that would be. If you can pull out a module and see if you get the problem again, if so try another module, and continue until you nail it down to a single module or rule out RAM altogether.

Not overclocking CPU or GPU that's for sure, but I think I did have some XMP stuff configured for RAM. It's been a few years so not entirely sure, but it's likely. I'll keep an eye out and see if it happens again in the near future.

 

[CryptoHermit]

Upgraded to Win11 and had to immediately roll back to Win10 because I was met with a black screen after a normal login window. I have no idea what caused it since my AMD drivers are only up to date from november.

 

[George Lucas]

It happened twice to me in the last week that windows just completely froze up. Granted, I had a lot of stuff open and I'm not sure if it was Steam, Brave or something else acting up. Might also be my CPU dying, it is a 13k series i7...

But somehow I have a feeling it might actually be a bad omen related to my SSD. It's an old 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus and it's closing in on 20k hours, 73TBW, and health status is at 96%... I think I need to prepare for the possibility of it going tits up in the near future.
PS: wait a second, just googled this, it's nowhere near MTBF stats. Should be 600TBW and over a million hours?! Maybe it is the CPU.

99% sure it’s a driver crash.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Upgraded to Win11 and had to immediately roll back to Win10 because I was met with a black screen after a normal login window. I have no idea what caused it since my AMD drivers are only up to date from november.

People have been complaining left and right about hard crashes and even hardware failure while playing Helldivers 2 on Windows.
Except, Helldivers 2 continues to run perfectly fine and actually even more stable than ever. On Windows 10.
Guess what the one unifying factor between users complaining about such extreme failure is?

 

[Sooty Soot]

>trying to install application, have proton with killswitch running in the background
>doesn't wanna install, says i need 22h2 which makes sense since im using IoT LTSC
>try to spoof it through the registry
>make a backup
>change EditionID to enterprise and the reg key for the version right above it to 22H2
>doesn't work
>wifi now doesnt work, connected but no internet
>fuck my life
>try to restore registry via .reg file
>nothing changes
>open it in notepad
>1 kb file, like 4-7 lines
>create another export
>several megabytes big, contains everything
>can't remember exact EditionID original value, change it to IoTEnterpriseS and version to 21H2
>nothing
>try network reset, resetting proton settings, troubleshooting, disabling network device
>still nothing
>boot into linux, wifi
>wifi works just fine
Wow, thank you Microsoft for making such an efficient and organized OS, I hope the talented engineers behind it from Calcutta got a bonus for this. On a less sarcastic note, any ideas as to how I should proceed?

 

[the rat]

>trying to install application, have proton with killswitch running in the background
>doesn't wanna install, says i need 22h2 which makes sense since im using IoT LTSC
>try to spoof it through the registry
>make a backup
>change EditionID to enterprise and the reg key for the version right above it to 22H2
>doesn't work
>wifi now doesnt work, connected but no internet
>fuck my life
>try to restore registry via .reg file
>nothing changes
>open it in notepad
>1 kb file, like 4-7 lines
>create another export
>several megabytes big, contains everything
>can't remember exact EditionID original value, change it to IoTEnterpriseS and version to 21H2
>nothing
>try network reset, resetting proton settings, troubleshooting, disabling network device
>still nothing
>boot into linux, wifi
>wifi works just fine
Wow, thank you Microsoft for making such an efficient and organized OS, I hope the talented engineers behind it from Calcutta got a bonus for this. On a less sarcastic note, any ideas as to how I should proceed?

this is why you make restore points before you start doing stupid shit

 

[Sooty Soot]

this is why you make restore points before you start doing stupid shit

Nigger, I created a registry backup before editing anything, yet for some reason said .reg file was only 7 lines and changed nothing when imported, I blame Indians for this. Anyway, I did some testing, seems to be a DNS issue since the troubleshooter says my device is configured correctly and then something about my DNS server, and running some network related commands in command prompt leaves most if not all DNS related fields as empty, yet I'm still at a loss on how to proceed. Will provide more updates soon.

 

[Dread First]

Cross-posting from the Linux thread. New ReactOS update! It's a perpetual alpha project by design, but I honestly adore the sheer tism these niggas have.

Phoronix: ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility (archive)

From the comments:

loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux (archive) (ghost) (mega)

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