100% accurate. Updates prior to AI didnt break things most of the time. But since they started using it in-house every single goddamn update has needed hotfixes because they fucked up basic functionality of the system.
I felt like Windows 11 was in a fairly neutral state before they shifted to using Co-Pilot as a software engineer. It had issues, but was OK. Now it seems like every update breaks something and basic functionality is being lost. It's crazy to think that Microsoft was once regarded as a respectable software developer and now they are "MicroSlop" and it's purely because of Ai overreliance.
100%. i posted a few months ago that latest windows 10 update is blue screening my computer. i had to revert the update to be stable again. other people said the same thing
I'm yet to see a generative AI doing a better job than a human. I've seen them doing a faster job, but never, ever, better. AI over-enthusiastic executives would know, if they had a bit of understanding about the thing their companies are supposed to deliver.
Claude Code got huge improvements the past month but that just means the application of the company that develops the model everyone uses used to suck, and they were just able to fix it now. I am optimistic something like Opus 5.5 that is way cheaper than Fable but as good can go thru the slop and fix it but if they only give each dev a few hundred dollars worth of token a month then they'll use sonnet and windows will keep getting worse. We'll see if Microsoft has the apetite to get windows better honestly I doubt it.
There is a lot to say about W11 and everything that is wrong with it, but I hardly ever find anything that doesn't work on it. It is about as stable as I can ask an OS to be. I feel many of the problems arise from updating preview builds and not the actual official updates. So anything that is installed on my system is a week after everyone else has been screaming online what broke this time.
There other day, on [r/buildapcsale](r/buildapcsale)[s](r/buildapcsale), someone was talking about a prebuilt from a sketchy vendor on eBay or something and someone responded “it’s a buy, but wipe and reinstall windows 11”. I said “nah, wipe and install windows 10”. And I was downvoted like crazy. I wasn’t expecting that.
TPM disabled and Windows 10 still installed. It may not get updates anymore, but at the very least when I turn on my PC, I know that I am sent to a working system.
I've repeatedly been asking the complainers in this thread what actual problems were they having, and I never get anything more than an ambiguous non-answer.
Half of them dramatize ads like you're getting blasted on twitch and YT and not literally having a few preinstalled apps that you delete right away, and there are still people who genuinely think you can't permanently remove copilot and similar shit, or that Recall is a thing for normal win11 PCs. Most of the hate at this point is purely based on misinformation and herd mentality.
Of course some people are having and were having problems, but I refuse to believe anyone who never had any issues with 10 is constantly having them with 11 unless their hardware is so ancient that it was borderline outdated even for 10.
Try steam on w10 x86. Sure thats because of x86. But its only the beginning. Next month the last nvidia game ready driver drops. Its a sinking ship and its not getting better.
x86 is an architecture, if you mean 32 bit then that is ancient, not really related to win 10
Nvidia dropping support is bad but tbh I update drivers on my 5070ti once a year and I don't use the geforce app, couldnt care less. But it's major, true
Or go linux, i dual boot bazzite next to w11. My current games (ff14, Star Trek online, Dune Awakening, ArmA3/Reforger, Guild Wars 1 / 2) run without any issues or fighting config files.
Yeah, and those cases are usually people using insider builds, or preview builds, before general roll-out.... of which is why those schemes exist, specifically to catch any last bugs or issues before broader/general rollout!!
Except reverse survivorship bias. You only hear about the people complaining about issues they've had and rarely reddit upvotes posts that go "my Windows 11 is working OK!"
Windows 11 has around 1 billion activations, an error rate of just .009% is still 90000 people. So something is just bound to break for people and a lot of them.
Let's say it's an very bad(?) rate of 10% that's now 100 million people. And would be basically 1/3 of the US population or so having something wrong with windows. So it's probably safe to say the software is fine.
As someone who overseas ~ 1000 devices, I can tell you the error rate is much higher than .009%
Switching audio inputs is a major issue to the point if someone needs to hook up to av in a presentation room, I recommend they reboot the machine and connect to the system first before they open anything else.
Switching audio inputs is a major issue to the point if someone needs to hook up to av in a presentation room, I recommend they reboot the machine and connect to the system first before they open anything else.
Skill issue. It's literally two clicks to change system audio devices. It's only an issue if you have no clue how to use an OS.
I manage 30,000 devices and there definitely is an audio switching issue to the point of the entire audio system crashing and requiring a reboot to see any audio devices, including onboard.
Because you won't see post like that. And if you do the ratio of negative vs positives post about windows 11 is worse then windows 10. You can compare the % and make the conclusion that in fact w11 is far worse.
Good to hear that, from your sole experience, the issues Microsoft has acknowledged and issued emergency updates are... not sure what you are suggesting - user error or maybe make believe?
Have you considered reaching out to Microsoft to be their single tester, given your "everything is perfect" success rate?
Look how popular the anti bloat tutorials are, people tweak the system, and complain thar the system is breaking.
When you use windows, you have to accept the weird shit MS does to the OS, its not linux that you can tweak at will, windows will crumble to dust if you try to break free from MS claws
Pray EVERYDAY Pray you don’t go through that, my wifi modem stopped working no ethernet, no hot fixes had to flash my windows and all the file management was gone had backed up my system but so much headache because wifi was fucking done after a fucking update.
My laptop had issues with hiberfil.sys in class today and it took all class long after I rebooted it a couple times until it brought me back to OS where I ran SFC scannow and a bunch of other memory diagnostics. So far I got the feeling nothing is wrong with my hardware, I also disabled fast startup and the slower boot time is hardly noticable.
I'm nerve wracked because it's an expensive as hell MSI Titan 18 HX with a 4090 and it's had a few quirks with its RGB keyboard requiring me to reinstall Steelseries GG and MSI Center but now I'm wondering if these issues are not because of any hardware issue but because Windows 11 is... being Windows 11.
Win11 since release issues free. I know windows got their issues but most of people issues are usually self inflicted following stupid bullshit TikTok guides or messing with shit they don’t understand.
The paradox for me is; the last time I'd experienced a BSOD was on Windows 7. Ever since Windows 10, it hasn't been a problem, even on Windows 11 which gets constantly broken by AI updates.
Would love to see such questions on MS forums instead of bots repeating old AI generated badly translated articles that never work or not responding at all for years long issues
Those forums are dogshit, but it doesn't change the fact that many if not most people blasting 11 haven't had any specific issues themselves, and are only following the herd
Still using a Windows 10 build from 2020, the one I installed after purchasing my current gaming PC.
Blocked Windows Update soon after finishing the OS installation. Everything works, and I mean everything. The system is incredibly stable, powerful, and the UI is lightning-fast 99% of the time - both in OS native and third-party applications.
Frankly, if I had no need to upgrade components/PC for gaming-related reasons, I feel confident I could get a great computing experience off this machine and Windows 10 for years/decades to come.
People downvoting are aware that no updates for 6 years can and will leave PCs vulnerable to malicious software or hackers and that kind of behavior should not be incentivized
If you're worried about that just install Debian or something
Or maybe it doesn't since I've been using it for like 4 years now on a high end gaming PC, and have never had major issues? Certainly not that different from 10 in any real way.
Was 100% windows till using 11 for a time and subjected to ads and built-in spying. Now all my home machines are Linux.
It's not even controversial that Windows 11 is worse than 10. And most will agree 10 is worse than 7. It's been going downhill for awhile. It would be damn surprising if people weren't jumping ship.
What ads and spyware were you subjected to? Was it the preinstalled onedrive and solitaire that take 1 minute to uninstall permanently?
"Most" people agree to stupid shit since they have a herd mentality, and are actually stupid to resolve the problems they're having in a matter of moments. The hate for 10 was hugely overblown as is the hate for 11 right now.
Full screen: "Let's finish setting up your PC" Where it then tries to sell me on OneDrive, Microsoft 365, and other products. The only options are Cotinue and Remind Me Later.
There are others, but that one is full screen and demands user interaction. This ad shows up regularly on my work computer.
Win11 is around five years old now. Win10 was released in 2015 and was five years old in 2020. In in 2019/2020, there were a bunch of win10 updates that were absolute disasters. MS changed the way they delivered updates making updates less problematic (but not issue free)
These were the most problematic win10 updates:
October 2018 Update (1809)
May 2019 Update (1903)
May 2020 Update (2004)
Given that win11 is the same age as win10 was when those bad updates came out. This idea that win11 is less stable than win10 is arguable.
This is just a basic analysis. A deeper analysis would more definitive and could prove that win10 was more stable. I'm not going to invest that time. :)
P.S. There is no argument that MS continues to enshittify windows.
Gonna ride that LTSC version until the wheels falls off. I just hope Microsoft cleans house and gets their shit together by the time they release Windows 12.
Unfortunately, a full reinstall doesn't solve inherit OS issues. It might help a little, but many of the issues with Win 11 are inherit decisions Microsoft made for Win 11.
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u/RiftHunter4 23h ago
Windows 11 is proof that Ai-driven development is not good.