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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot
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I remember some years ago there was a "malware" going around that would flash OpenWRT onto people's routers, and set them to have more secure default settings.
There should be another thing like that, but one that upgrades Windows into a Linux distro.
That is absolutely hilarious. Good guy malware swooping in and fixing people's shit? Any chance you have a link?
Gemini claims it doesn't exist when I prompted it for finding more info, so for the sake of testing out Gemini's capability of searching I'm doubly interested if this exists.
Edit: found it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux.Wifatch
And here's a SecurityWeek.com article on it.
Why would you send an image to gemini instead of just text? Annoy Google?
Testing it's ability to transcribe photo and recognize content
Someone, somewhere is wondering why his CAPTCHAs are getting odly specific.
Well, the US government has at least twice broken into infected US devices and fixed things. IDK about installing OpenWRT but the stories have some overlap
And people will only notice because the ads stopped coming, because their system got secure and stable...
And they'll still complain about THAT, for sure...
Oh cool, I guess I don't need to play all my favorite games... Most is just as good right?
You Linux Uber fans are too much sometimes.
Sometimes people just don't think about that people can have different wants and needs.
All, literally every game I want to play runs great in Linux, and my hobbies of self hosting, development, homelabbing, and data hoarding are all leagues better on it.
That doesn't make a good choice for my friend that only logs on to play destiny 2. It also doesn't matter why, to my friend, its a bad choice. It could be the devs are chained and lashed by Microsoft for even mentioning Linux in the office, but what matters to someonethatt only wants to play that game with friends is whether it works.
Steam has ~30 million users per day. Windows has over 1.5 billion installs.
Gamers really over value themselves.
Yeah Linux is fun, until it breaks a week or two later. I'll stick with windows, because it never breaks.
Windows never breaks? Uhhhhh, that's definitely not true. When I have to use Windows, I brace myself every time I have to update.
When did you last use windows, lol? Windows is pretty damn stable nowadays. I don't think an update has ever broken my windows 10 install that is still going from 2016.
I've gotten a number of calls from clients recently where a Windows update uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers, making their Bluetooth mouse and keyboard unusable.
I've even had a few where an update uninstalled the WiFi drivers so they couldn't even download the drivers without a wired network connection.
Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.
If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.
Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn't have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.
Curious as to which distro you were using?
(Yeah, I know, but please, humor me.)
Debian sever. This was early 2018 or late 2017.
I use windows every day and I've never once seen it do anything wrong, ever.
Maybe it's a skill issue?
It's been about four years since windows broke on me enough to do a reinstall. Linux lasts a month with me being gentle.
It's a no brainer.
I run arch BTW, 7 years throwing it down stairs, running commands that I had no idea what they did, learned linux from scratch deleting chunks of my hdd compiling and installing random software, never once had it break bad enough to reinstall . I bet you love ltt too haha... maby you should stick to a beginner os like Windows, I've heard Apple is even easier... or why don't you just pay someone smarter than you to host and troubleshoot your os while they market your info and habits to the highest bidder... oh wait
I love when morons out themselves, makes blocking people like you an actual joy.
Oh no!... anyway
Skill issue! How is my mother better at using Linux than you?😆
He must be deleting all the weird files on the c drive. I better empty the recycle bin
sudo rm -rf /binBeen running Arch on my work laptop for over a year. Still waiting for the fabled difficulty and update breaks. Starting to think in modern times its perpetuated to keep people on Windows.
Must be nice. It's been about seven years since I last dove into Linux, so maybe things have changed. But also in that time, windows became even more stable than it was, and it's silky smooth these days.
I don't see any benefits to even trying Linux again.
"Please sign into your microsoft account to continue." After entering my PIN.
Ads in the greeter.
lightdm-gtk-greeter does neither of these things.
Ads in my menu along "news and interests"
dmenu simply searches my applications.
Don't even get me started on the themes either.
Now that proton has brought steam into the mix windows no longer makes sense for gaming rigs, only office chuds who think computers are magic.
I never see ads on windows. Maybe The were there once, but once disabled, they never came back.
Oh really, I think you and my Debian server with >10 years of uptime should have a conversation.
You should update your kernel at least once every 10 years
There are some lovely tools that allow kernel updates sans reboot.
Name checks out.
Linux breaking depends on mostly 2 thing:
The user. Depending on what they try to do, it can easily break Linux. (looking at me somehow breaking KDE Plasma and somehow fixing it without understanding how it broke or how I fixed it)
Updating (from what I understand, mostly a big issue on rolling release distros like Arch or Manjaro). Bleeding edge software with major bugs the stable release don't get can always cause instability.
Though, I will say, that I've never had win10 crash on me unless I have too much stuff open or am being an absolute idiot. Windows always seems to be stable, at least I've never had issues for a long time.
Let’s be honest though. I’m a big fan of Linux/Unix systems, but if (not saying that’s necessarily the case) a normal user can break their installation by being a normal user, it’s not suited for normal users.
Windows is a pain in the ass imo, but pretty hard for a normal user to break in my experience.
I use both. Can confirm windows breaks 10x more than Debian stable.
Breaking Linux every week or every other week? That's almost impressive!
Lol, I see what you did here.
I may start doing this as well... I'm SO tired of every post about Windows being flooded with Linux supremecists.
Do you know what BSOD is?
Yeah, and it's been about ten years or more since I last saw one on my PC.