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[–] rebelsimile 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Applying the December 2024 security update via Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog will resolve the issue and restore the system's ability to accept future security updates

so the solution to it not updating is to go to windows update and update it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

That's gotta be peak full disclosure communication lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s because this situation is only applicable to offline environments where updates would otherwise be deployed manually.

This issue does not affect systems that receive updates directly through Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog.

So, the overwhelming majority of systems and especially all of those used by average consumers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Now, tell me again how you could never consider Linux because it's just so unreliable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually haven't seen that particular argument. It's not that Linux itself is unreliable. It's that there's a harder learning curve for trouble shooting issues when you do have them. Linux has less guides for things because it doesn't have the market share.

I use Linux (fedora), and it's mostly just fine. I like it. But if I tried to use it on my work machine running the apps I need in a VM or wine or similar and something went wrong, I wouldn't have anything to fall back on to help me figure it out.

I will say that a lot of people who use windows could probably just use Linux and everything would be fine. But unreliability isn't what I've been hearing about when people explain why they don't switch.

[–] ghen 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not just less guides but the Linux community is also actively hostile to people who just want to fix their problem and not learn how to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair so far I had just positive experience when asking about issues here on Lemmy... Don't know about other places though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's understandable on their part. If people are too lazy/unable to learn how to fix something they better pay someone to do it for them before they fuck their whole system.

But this is nothing new even for windows, so bit of a weird take in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If anything, I've found more guides for doing stuff under Linux than Windows, simply because you can do so many more things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And at the same time, they're using Android phones...

[–] stevedice 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My Fedora installation turns off the backlight of my laptop unless I have it plugged in. Every OS has issues. Stop trying to make it your personality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No exceptions to Murphy's law; however, there's difference if something don't work with Linux, on Lenovo hardware, because Lenovo tries a new fancy thing and make it work only on Windows (or a multiplayer game doesn't work because the anticheat is Windows only) and a Microsoft's thing don't working on Microsoft's Windows because is made by Microsoft and nobody else, but Microsoft, has control to fix it.

[–] stevedice 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, blame shifting. I don't know why I expected anything else. The same laptop was working fine before the update so this is definitely a Fedora issue. Anyway, the point is that nobody ever said anything about Windows being more reliable, dude just thinks liking an OS over another is a personality.

As a side note, have you checked the process to get a PR accepted into Fedora? Nobody has any chance to fix anything in Fedora any more than they do in Windows.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Huh.

Good we're on 10 then.

And Linux.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good thing Bazzite is turning out to be such a winner. The countdown to complete switch has begun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been using Garuda for dual boot for a while on my desktop. Finally got the single program I actually needed windows for working well enough to actually use, so last week I nuked my laptop win11 install and got Garuda up.
Never been happier with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been running Bazzite as my main OS now for about 8 months and I love it. Recently installed CachyOS on a separate SSD and am also loving that as well.

Linux is pretty great these days. Last time I tried it in 2014 I didn't even bother to try gaming on it, now proton makes that a set and forget setup.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, I'm experiencing this bug right now!

Its the reason why I just went and bought 5 more TB of disk space so that I can back up all my stuff and move to linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

This issue does not affect systems that receive updates directly through Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog.

This is virtually never the case for any end user, and likely not even the case for a large number of enterprise environments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, just another Microsoft F-ckup. Nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yet people proclaim windows is more reliable ha!