New Windows 11 build adds self-healing "quick machine recovery" feature
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So it’s good they’re adding this tool, but sucks that these scenarios are so common a tool like this is needed. However, I’ve seen issues where something gets corrupted, a sfc scannow check is triggered on reboot, and never finds anything. Windows diagnostic troubleshooting is very painful because the OS doesn't give you much information, and what’s there is very obscure. So if this tool is built on that shoddy foundation, I’m not sure it’ll be very successful. There are thousands of guides suggesting an sfcscannow or other disk check and they never work.
On topic, I don't have an alternative for Windows. I have plenty of issues with Linux "just working" (sound, graphics, etc).
The worst of it being Notepad.
I use Notepad _constantly_. I am always pasting little bits of text or drafts of things in ephemeral tabs for later reference.
For the first time in Windows history, there is PERCEIVABLE FUCKING LATENCY trying to type ... in NOTEPAD.EXE
Idk what the execs are smoking there, but they need to fix this ASAP.
The old Notepad is still there once you remove the odious new one.
I got one of those Win10 fullscreen "let's finish setting up your system" popups yesterday (I finished the setup a couple of years ago thanks - instead it's just an euphemism for "let's re-enable all the annoying and useless things you specifically disabled"), and it doesn't have the "Skip" button anymore, instead it now says "Remind me in 3 days" >:(
I just wish Windows 11 start doing 11.1 and 11.2 instead of some 2H26 name. And start iterating towards a better Windows 12. May be because there are plenty of low hanging fruit still that makes Windows improvement easier.
Cant say the same about macOS. Let's see if macOS 26 will be any better.
The UI is a garbled mess of like 15 years of UI design. There are 3+ menus for doing nearly every task. You can still use some views that have been around since windows 98. Then basic tasks get hidden.
it's just a garbled mess in so many ways. They push updates that break the OS on a regular basis.
And then with every update it erases all the changes you've made. The lack of customization is really annoying.
Then some updates kill performance for no real reason.
A couple years ago I switched to a custom build of Win10(spectre) then finally made the jump to full time linux again. My partner also switched, as did a bunch of her coworkers in academia. Everyone had similar complaints, in that win11 was harder to use for what they needed without any real benefits. I asked if there has been anything in win11 that has been beneficial and nobody can really say anything. A lot of win 11 feels like updating just to update.
Also somehow win11 audio/bluetooth is worse than linux. I had so, so many issues with bluetooth audio in win11. Just a mess of an OS.
> The lack of customization is really annoying.
This has been plaguing pretty much all software for at least 15 years now. Everyone wants to get away with an MVP. Advanced settings are deeply buried or they're simply inaccessible to users. Error messages no longer say anything meaningful, just 'oops' and 'we're sorry.' And that 'we' pronoun shatters any doubt as to who's now in control.
> The UI is a garbled mess of like 15 years of UI design. There are 3+ menus for doing nearly every task. You can still use some views that have been around since windows 98. Then basic tasks get hidden.
A great example is the Power & Battery settings. There are two separate Control Panel screens for these, one of which has the old Control Panel UI and you're not really meant to use.
They really need to go through all the internal settings/configs screens and port them to the new UI platform.
But not sure what the decent alternatives are. Yes, Windows Explorer is a slow piece of 90s tech, but it's still leagues ahead of Gnome's Nautilus. And I was never a friend of macOS's finder. Just as one example representative of the wider OS. I can get a decent command shell on any OS, but in terms of power-user GUIs Windows is still has little competition. Even if you have to fight against enshittification and need 3rd party tools to fix its deficiencies
Nowadays, KDE is stable and is way better at being Windows that Windows. It's a remarkable desktop
Somewhat ironically, in Win11 it has been substantiay modified. Now it crashes on basic stuff like creating an empty folder.
Honestly, it's like Microsoft looked at the mess that is the Linux DE world and thought "yes, that's what we need!"
Wut?
A recent patch bricked my entire hard drive making it unable to boot or mount. New install of Win11 on new hard drive didn’t install recovery mode so I had to do it manually.
If you had installed btfs and something like this happend people would be all over the place, but on windows this is normal
When he/she installed Microsoft products.
Strange naming convention. In my company canary sits between dev and beta, usually used for load testing. Then move to beta for A/B and stability testing, and finally to release/production. Dev is the most unstable.
Which, in the best Microsoft tradition, will become broken by a new "update".
.... I never enjoyed the full OS "upgrade in place" crap that Windows has been doing for a while...
Akin to Google using things like overlay filesystems to deploy Android updates (by skipping the OS managed by OEMs) rather than actually fixing the update system.