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Win11 has been a trash OS for me. Laggy on great hardware, ads, BSODs, reliability issues, and more. Not to mention devices like audio interfaces not working out of the box, despite working out of the box on Mac & Linux. Such an annoying operating system. It’s easily the least reliable OS I’ve used in the past 5 years of using Linux, Mac, and windows regularly. The only one that’s crashed on me frequently.

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.

Here's a good picture for everything that's wrong with the Windows team (or rather their management idiots):

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" >:(

You can turn those off in Settings, System -> Notifications -> Additional Settings -> Check box for suggestions to get the most out of Windows. So scummy they hide it there though.

Win11 was great for me, but recently the shoe-horning of Copilot/AI into everything has been degrading my experience.

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.

Use Notepad2.

https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/screenshots

Use the newest fork, https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4. That's what I switched to when Microsoft started bloating up Notepad.

Or notepad++

The new Notepad can be removed. I'm on mobile right now and don't have the docs handy, but it will be a Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage command in PowerShell.

The old Notepad is still there once you remove the odious new one.

Oh, that is great to know, thank you!

For reference I used to be a Microsoft advocate in XP days, but since then I have decline. Feels like since Azure started them become money hungry.

On topic, I don't have an alternative for Windows. I have plenty of issues with Linux "just working" (sound, graphics, etc).

Maybe you should reinstall. I upgraded from Win 10 and have no issues.

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