I actually want a distro that I don't have to constantly fix.
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Moments like this are why people get frustrated—tools should get out of the way, not add extra hoops. Everyone’s setup works… until it suddenly doesn’t.
Always remember: Your OS should do nothing more than provide a GUI for you to access apps and run apps. Anything else is not necessary.
Your OS can run your home server. No need for GUI if you know what you're doing.
Your OS provides a GUI? fancy
Because people actually have a life.
The lines you draw are so arbitrary but at least you're prepared to die on those hills.
Prey tell, what is this OS of yours that is not coercive and doesn't contain bloat, yet has a full GUI as part of the operating system?
I also want it to have a built-in clock and calendar in the taskbar. But Microsoft won't even let me have that! They got rid of the calendar!
I still see a calendar if I click the clock on my work laptop. Though that might have been one of the settings I clicked while wondering why MS even thought this should change.
Ah, you're right. Instead of bringing up the calendar, it brings up ~notifications~, and you have to click a little pop-up button to see the calendar. Thank God I only have to worry about this on my work computer.
From a non-technical user's pov kinda true.
But not true at all when you enumerate the actual responsibilities of an OS.
The OS shouldn't even do that. That's the job of the display manager and desktop environment
True.
Probably using some AI to do fuzzy authentication or something. I had a window pop up like this on my work laptop for some random app it was checking for updates on but failed to authenticate for (just for that app, no other errors, hasn't popped up again since).
I'm guessing this is a misleading post? Probably a random app in the store that's called "terminal" that is broken and the actual windows command prompt is working fine.
Can confirm this is an actual issue from Microsoft impacting lots of normal system apps that update via the Microsoft Store and/or Windows Update.
I’ve seen it mess up Notepad, Snipping Tool to name a few.
It’s pretty egregious that a bug like this can mess up utilities already installed on your computer.
Windows is really feeling like a single-player video game that requires an always on connection.
Source: I’m an IT professional who has been helping people with this since yesterday.
More source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5729246/how-to-fix-error-code-0x803f8001
Is that the same update that broke Windows App* authentication?
* their idiotic name for the new remote desktop
What's the actual fuck Microsoft
They're preparing to rent people desktop access over the internet. Gotta trim up that you don't own shit store code.
I maintain over a hundred windows 11 machines. I recently push new software that I had to manually configure on each machine. While doing this I checked for problems. Over half had terminal and other programs like notepad installed separately. All the machines are in a domain environment but windows 11 ignores many of the GPO's I have in place. Its pathetic and just a reason to have to do more work. So I have no problem believing that terminal had been installed and then disabled due to some microsoft account nonsense.
Command prompt is slowly becoming legacy. Microsoft wants powershell to be its successor thus Terminal was born.
terminal does support a bunch of different shells, including cmd
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For anyone who's interested, Microsoft have provided an update that's about as helpful as you might have expected, right at the top of the Github issue where this has been reported.
! Note
What we Know
- There is an issue impacting all store applications on Windows as of 2026-01-21.
- There have been some reports that choosing to Repair the Terminal application has restored it to working order.
There have been some reports that choosing to Repair the Terminal application has restored it to working order.
... Or, you know, dont hook that shit so tight into your store that it breaks if the store is offline or something gets messed up? I have personally never seen applications randomly stop working on Linux (Unless i did something stupid, i once fucked up glibc for all flatpaks system-wide on Fedora), specially now that im on NixOS, its just not possible for a program's files to get corrupted on NixOS since the store is read-only (Of course if it doesnt gracefully handle config errors and the config gets corrupted then it will break, but often times it would just be deleting the file and letting it create a new one, not reinstalling the application).
Cancel Microsoft 🤷♀️
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