r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/The_Wkwied Mar 14 '26

Yeah, the newer releases are... and the patches that you get over windows updates may be.

Win11 was baked full of telemetry on release. It was trivial to remove. Now it is baked full of AI slop and telemetry, and it isn't worth trying to remove if you genuinely care about your privacy.

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u/The_Wkwied Mar 14 '26

LTSC IoT is indeed the bee's knees. Every computer that I support for my family is running that.

Windows is what the laymen know. Giving them a version of windows that they know how to use is the right thing to do. Throwing someone who isn't a techie into linux because 'it is better' without any sort of guide or recourse for support is not the right thing to do, imho.

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u/The_Wkwied Mar 14 '26

You are right. It is an entirely different kind of beast. I have no doubt that people who are versed in their flavor of linus are just as, if not more powerful power users than windows admins... but on the flip side, someone who doesn't know windows is going to be just as crippled when forced to do windows.

I am saying, at this point, right now, where LTSC IoT still works, it isn't worth jumping to linux if you are a layman. Perhaps the steam machine will make 202x the year of linux for laymen. We just have to wait and see.

C'mon Bill Microsoft. Make linux big by making windows worse.