They could resolve many things if they did not push AI so hard, or making stupid things like removing the local account option, windows recall, etc…, but i guess SHAREHOLDERS.
See. This is why they need AI. Copilot will fix all of the issues if they just ask it nicely and tell it to not make mistakes.
So when will we see W12?
Oh right, never mind. 🐧
Here are some Windows 12 rumors (pulled from one of the biggest German-language tech news sites citing insider information)
https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Windows-12-Geruechte-Release-Systemanforderungen-Download-2025-33395891.html- It won’t come out this year, release may be end of next year at the absolute earliest.
- It will require PCs with a Neural Processing Unit that can handle more than 40 billion TOPS, 8GB RAM minimum, 16 recommended.
- It may eventually require an ARM-based “Copilot PC”, a new device class released last year.
- It will be modular, with a core OS and additional modules depending on edition, licensing, hardware and use case.
- It may have a read-only system partition.
- It will be focussed on AI and cloud integration, heavily leaning towards OS as a service.
- It will be free to install as an upgrade, with a monthly subscription to run it.
All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.
Cries in supporting multi-user AVD Hosts
Microsoft has government and cooperate costumers that will keep paying them for decades. Why care? If MSword still works, people will buy it.
Really hoping Microsoft fails for everything ezcept Xbox. Then Xbox team takes over and then turns the company into a private non-stock unionized one
Would love to see what an Xbox-lead Microsoft can do with it reformed
What are Microsofts most moneymaking fields aboce Xbox? Are they getting eroded at all?
Xbox feels like the biggest one being eroded rn… i don’t think what Xbox is doing is any good nor would it help the main business
Azure is the cloud backbone of many businesses and services, so if Windows went away, MS would still have their fingers in a number of pies.
In last April:
“Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI”
Vibe coding!?
Oh yes. That’ll make windows even better. Doh!
So they’ve taken a leaf out of KDE’s development book.
Is windows11 Microsoft’s KDE4 moment?
I feel like Windows 11 is just another Microsoft “Windows moment”.
What’s your preferred DE?
Does it have to be a DE?
Preferred WM is Xmonad (with my tabular boonad config, the grandpa version).
But much love also for herbstluftwm.
And dwm, openbox, icewm, i3, and others.
I have all these window managers in my wmrotate scripts in my wminizer script, so I can kill one and move to the next, without losing all running gui programs, keeping my X11 session going.
But if it has to be strictly DE…
I guess LXDE’s still my fave.
Respect to XFCE and Trinity too. And Mate.
KDE’s awesome. Big love to it again, after it got settled in after the KDE4 debacle.
LXQt’s fine too (though I prefer LXDE).
I’ve not tried Cosmic.
I dont know my way around cinnamon and the various other similar. Only briefly experienced.
GNOME have utterly lost the plot.
Why’d you ask?
Microsoft finally admits
almost all majorWindows 11core featuresare brokenFTFY
Windows 11 are broken
Well, it does boot most of the time. So it’s not completely broken, just majorly broken…
What it boots into is broken.
The more it works, the more it’s broken.
It’s broken that much, at such a deep level.
Last month they broke audio drivers, so USB connected speakers were not being recognised unless they had third-party drivers. The native windows drivers just stopped recognising them as audio devices, and just listed them as Unknown Device.
Windows could see them, it had no idea what they were, or what to do with them. So you had no audio.
The only solution was to continuously restart until eventually it randomly worked.
Or could take a look at the code, find what’s broken, and see if you can find how to mend it, and either offer a pull request or fork it…
… ohhhh but wait.
It’s broken at that level too. Denied the right to repair.
Not that they’re going to fix any of them though.
“We’ll slap some ‘AI’ on any a few things and, boom, it’ll fix itself” -Whoever the Microsoft CEO is now
For what it’s worth, my KDE file browser would freeze up when I had a WebDav network drive to a server that went offline, not exactly elegant either, just opening my home folder and randomly after a second or two …… all software can bug in bad ways.
Also happened to me just yesterday when I put my raspberry PI offline that served as a NAS, dolphin just became frozen…
Trinity’s more stable and dependable.
Or openbox, declared feature complete something like a decade ago.
True, I’ve experienced that bug.
The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.
With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.
The main difference is KDE doesn’t make disgusting money off it, and if someone cares enough they can actually submit a fix
That’s the reason I put up with a lot of FOSS issues: “I’m not paying you for this, so it’s still a better price/result ratio than paid services”
That is definitely an annoyance. But the cause is not your file browser or KDE. The webdav has been mounted to the system and when an application tries to use it, it runs into a timeout. You can’t even unmount it, since that requires the system to talk to the network drive.
This is also not limited to webdav, it happens with all kinds of network drives. This is something that needs to be addressed at the core level of Linux. But I have no expertise, so no real clue where exactly.
this is a file browser or KDE issues, as file system operations shouldn’t happen on the UI thread. if it weren’t happening on the UI thread then it would keep working.
The same behavior happens for me in a different file browser (Nemo) and a different Desktop (Cinnamon). So I’m pretty confident, it is no isolated KDE issue.
I ain’t got no problems using SFTP and SMB
Microsoft, you already got me to leave Windows, you don’t have to keep sending me reminders, I wasn’t at risk of wanting to come back…
Didn’t windows 11 become available long ago? Did no one ever try it out before the hostage situation?
Certainly not the beta testers
Maybe all the dependable beta testers who would report bugs had already left to Linux or BSD.
Or like the other commenter replied here suggests,
Maybe dependable beta testers who would report bugs had too steep a workload they gave up and moved to Linux or BSD.
I tried it for a couple of months when it first came out. At that early point it wasn’t too bad for usability. But, after a decent look around it, I wiped it and went back to Linux on my laptop.
You know I never really thought about it but do you think the spying tools these companies provide ever fail like the way their other products do?
A-ha! So that’s where the development resources go. To where the money’s made.
Nah, if there’s one thing they thoroughly test, it’s the spying.
One might hope
IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.
Yeah. Weird vibes.
*Weird vibe codes
Exactly
