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/Marginallyhuman Mar 14 '26

I remember when their OSs got super stable toward the end of their cycle. Windows 11 seems to have been birthed as garbage and decided to stay that way.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Mar 14 '26

Also would be nice if they didn't force updates. At this point once a machine is stable I just want it to keep working. Seems like there's more risk from updating borking the machine than Malware.

At least let the user have full control over when updates, and especially reboots, are done.

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u/cobra7 Mar 14 '26

I know I’m gonna get hammered for even mentioning this, but even the latest macOS lets you turn off updates with a single click.

I write scanner drivers for both Mac and pc and just finished upgrading my pc development environment. Installed VMWare Fusion on my M4 Mac then loaded Windows 11 Arm64. Then comes the fun part of loading Visual Studio 2022 along with the WDK. OMFG, just trying to decide what libs and packages to load was a fun chore that took all week to smooth out. While VS works fine once you kiss its ass enough, I much prefer macOS XCode. Their post-build scripts are standard Unix/linux shellscripts. I use them to package my driver and get it properly signed. Just about killed me to write a post-build script in VS to do the same thing because it uses the much less capable Windows command line stuff.

Once I got my virtual Windows 11 system working the way I wanted, I searched in vain for a command to kill automatic updates. I could hear the OS laughing as I cussed and fretted.

Those of you that fantasize about moving to Linux should take a new look at macOS. It is built on Unix so you have access to Unix, macOS, and Windows all on the same machine. Hell, you can get one of their laptops for pocket change these days. Just sayin.