Nothing fucking works anymore.

No problem! I can just kill the process in the…shit.
No problem! I can just kill the process in the…shit.

For what it’s worth Windows 10 is/was perfectly usable after setting it up properly. A bit of customization needed but nothing crazy. Honestly I liked the OS and its design, it felt very clean and utility oriented.

I’ve set up a new Windows 11 install from scratch this past month and it has been a real pulling-teeth experience. It’s not completely unfixable (yet) but even the annoyances that are not sinister are perplexing. There’s a new context menu that has a cut down layout and takes a few milliseconds to load - I get the design decision to keep it short, and have a button for more options, but it lags - so I’m out. It’s just a little hidden config to automatically skip to the full (more cluttered but no lag) menu (which you could do by holding shift every single time). There’s a few dozen little annoyances like that. A few are bigger than others, like the need to drive Copilot out to the desert and double tap it in the head unceremoniously. They’ve put it in Paint. They’ve put it in fucking Notepad.

That’s not even getting into how desperately they want every user signing away the rights to their bone marrow to the Microsoft Corporation. The computer I’ve set up is more or less where I want it to be, but I’m wary of things breaking with an update.

I’m not big on quotes but I’ve been coming back to Ed Zitron’s words a lot lately:

I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer.

I find it funny how the tables turned. Used to be that Linux was the one that needed unintuitive setup and Windows was the one that just worked. I don’t think I’ve used a single Linux image that didn’t just drop me into a desktop environment no questions asked upon boot, and that’s a world away from the awful, awful new Windows experience. Unless Microsoft conspires to make the next decade of Linux hardware drivers absolutely abhorrent, I think this will have to be my last Windows machine. That or the entire executive suite of Microsoft’s OS division has an epiphany about not wanting to spend eternity in hell.

For all the Just Use Linux people: I’ve got more machines running Linux in my house than Windows. I’ll get there, Microsoft is just doing everything they can to push everyone off their OS.

KDE Plasma on Ubuntu is a dream!!!

The usage of vibe coding tools in the NPM repo has only led to two major incidents (supply chain attacks) in the last months

my time on this earth is finite (for now)

Let me know when you get that immortality hack working!

The version of windows 10 my Lenovo laptop can’t see wifi. I don’t like factory resetting that machine (actually I can’t anymore since I wiped the recovery partition when I moved it to Linux) my framework laptop came with no OS so was immune to bad factory OS version problems

Captive audience on the contracts side, so they can do whatever they want as crappy as they want and the contracts still generate revenue.

You wanted a usable product? Stay away from Big Tech anymore.

Marketing discovered AI can code (terribly).

I’m not sure it was possible to ruin something like LinkedIn …

No way… Are you serious?

Both? Both. Both is good.

what does vibe coding mean?

I haven’t had teams crash, just behaving badly, not marking chats read, not moving updated chats to the top.

Teams crashes or fails to work for me at least a few times a week and has for months. Outlook glitches out daily. I legit started using the web access instead of actual Outlook because it constantly bugged out.

Both Teams and Outlook are so ridiculously slow for what they do and the hardware they are running on.

Meanwhile in Windows 11: 4 years after release and I still can’t click on the clock on my secondary monitor to look at the calendar.

That’s what happens when you start using LLMs for all of your software development. Garbage code all day long.

my windows 10 stability has been horrendous the past month or so

constant file explorer and office program crashes, random reboots and blue screens, lock ups. no consistent pattern to it that I can tell.

also getting weird glitches in teams that I’ve never seen before that require a force close and restart to make it usable again