Who could have predicted this?

And that's why, as Windows 10 is about to expire, I am switching to Linux

I switched to Linux Mint (Cinamon) two weeks ago and I'm surprised how easy it was, and now wonder why I didn't do it earlier. So far I have been super satisfied!
- Linux Mint Cinnamon is awesome. I'm a developer for embedded linux systems and I run the current version of Mint on all my machines, even at work. Having a user friendly experience out of the box doesn't make it not Linux/FOSS.
  And if the ease of installation surprised you, just wait until you see what system updates are like compared with windows!
  I updated two of my systems to Linux Mint 22.2 yesterday and the entire install process runs in the background in about 90 seconds without disrupting what you're doing (I was in a meeting while I let it install). Then you reboot whenever convenient and that's less than another minute.
- A fellow Linux mint guy! Also got into cinnamon!
I'm gonna do the same in october. Though I'm really dreading it, even though I know it will be fine and already use Mint on two other computers.

My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!

You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.
- Even though I'm a Pop user, I put her on Mint Cinnamon because the interface is very Windows like.
🥂
I obviously don't know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn't have issues working with MS-using clients.
- As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.
  Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.
- Neither web versions nor LibreOffice can satisfy the needs of a true Excel power user. Also, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and multi-account Outlook access are all problematic unless you are using the native clients. Now she runs Windows VMs for that stuff.
Such a wholesome story!
Thanks for sharing.
That's why I finally made the switch!

"Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off... some day... we guess..."

This is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game once the technology reaches fruition, This wouldn't work for some big monolithic company like linux.
- and especially FreeBSD
It's paying off for the shareholders RIGHT NOW. In the future it's probably gonna bite them in the but, but who cares? Profits now > profits later.

One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it's OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it's OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.

Trust but verify.
Applies to so, so many scenarios these days.

Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me constantly, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.

I mean, you can't really blame this one on AI outlook has been crap for decades.
- But it has been miles better than gmail for decades.
Join us! I switched to Mint about 8 months back and I have noticeably fewer regular issues than when I was on Windows.

It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad

It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.
- I'd like to agree. But I'm stuck with Windows at work. At the moment, our IT guys upgrade a couple of PCs a day from Win10 to Win11. The GUI sucks, and the complete network is getting slower and slower. I crave the good old DOS times, when the system used to be faster than me.
- Except for people who are less tech savvy and don't have a desire to tinker. Windows has been the standard for so long that many people don't have knowledge outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Linux is best for those who want to dig into computers.
Yeah—misfortunate, but that's expected; I'm happy it's pushing people towards FOSS OS like Linux. The more people get ahead and switch over the better. Implementation of FOSS from corporate is a hurdle, always favoring myopic efficiency 🫤
- I wish Linux had better tools to manage desktops at scale. You can make it work but it isn't quite as smooth.
  I would love if we had something like zero touch enrollment.
The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn't worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.
Microsoft can't force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I'm sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.
- @HobbitFoot @possiblylinux127 year of the GNU/Linux desktop is near 😀
Fuck windows. I got fed up of their constant monitoring. I am glad to be rid of it. They still have a lot of my data, sadly, but nothing spicy, and given their incompetence they will probably lose it all by the time any buyer wants it.
.... always was.
- Not really
  It got a lot of people excited about computers back when the customer was the user

My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won't boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft's bullshit, I'm tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good

Do it. Enjoy the new freedom.
Oof. I only upgraded my last Windows 10 install to Linux Mint a week ago. It feels like I may have dodged a bullet, this time.
As you said, I just don't have the time or energy for this particular bit of computing excitement.

I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I'd put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
\ Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).

The articles for windows 10 aren't going to be great either once the security updates stop
Edit I can't read you're using the longer supported version
- Windows 10 IoT LTSC has security updates until 2032.
  Edit: I also just saw your edit.
- But at least you'll only have to worry about external threats, not direct delivery via windows updates.

I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.

Obligatory "windows updates can break Linux on dual boot" comment
Never tried it myself, but looks promising, you should try it on your dual boot. https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat
- Can I run mameui64 with that?

AI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.

Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-claims-windows-11-is-innocent-of-killing-ssds-but-the-mystery-continues

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/phison-squashes-reports-of-windows-11-breaking-ssds-says-it-was-unable-to-reproduce-issues-despite-4-500-hours-of-testing-recommends-users-deploy-heatsinks-just-in-case

People witch hunting Phison too.

Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures were everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.
Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.
(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)
- Lemmy loves Linux and rightly so, but it hates Windows even more.
  Example, this is a no-subject memes community, and you'll find plenty of anti-Windows stuff here. And the actual linuxmemes community sometimes feels like it could be renamed to hatewindowsmemes.
- JayzTwoCents:
  https://youtu.be/TbFIUu_7LIc
- which journalism outlets though? if there are vested interests I don't trust like that. Obviously microsoft and phison are going to deny responsibility. so did intel when their 13th and 14th gen CPUs were suiciding.
I heard too many stories about people’s hard drives failing after the update for the news to be false. As far as I know, the issue isn’t easily reproducible though.
- Stories without data are what.
I didn't think a lot of drives were actually permanently borked, were they?
I'll pitch in my anecdote: I updated to Windows 11 3878, everything was fine. Downloaded Helldivers onto my gaming drive overnight, and woke up in the morning seeing that the SSD was not being detected (WD Black NVME, no heatsink). Pulled it out, put it in another PC, saw that it was being detected, so I rolled back the Windows update because that's the only other thing that had changed. Drive works fine again.
SOMETHING definitely happened, but I think it's waaaaaaay over-reported tbh.

I'm so glad I get to enjoy Linux every single day.

We should keep in mind that thousands of people work at large corporations like Microsoft and many of them do not agree with company policy and positions, including people in senior roles.

Scott Hanselman is a VP at Microsoft who has given some of the best presentations on AI from a social, ethical, and technical demonstration standpoint that I have seen. I have been spreading his NDC London talk around to everyone I can: https://youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8

It is worth the watch.

I fully switched to Linux this year: it's nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.

I went into linux mint. I am certain, CERTAIN, that a windows 10 update probably caused a fundamental HD failure on my old computer. I have hard drives much older and more used than the one I had, yet that HD, which was the main HD I had started to fail. It gave enough life for me to back it up into a massive 14TB backup drive (I keep that one unplugged when not in use) so I didn't lose any data.

But HD failures are rare for me. I am fucking glad I was able to save the data. I need to put that drive to some old fashion electronic recycling.

How were you certain? Drives fail all the time.

I tried to rollback this update and either somehow did something incredibly wrong, or windows decided to bug out. It slowed the PC horribly, and I had to reinstall windows 11. Such a pain

I first used an early gen/model ssd on linux, it promptly died due to constant log writes. oops.

then I used platter until nvme came out.

then I 'needed' (forced to use specific config) windows for work so I set up a second computer.

from then to now I've had 4 ssd and 1 platter death under windows and nothing with linux even constantly distrohopping on the linux drive. not including the shared usb drives at least.

Oh the irony of sitting back on Win 10 being what saves people from the issue.

It is about to go EOL