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Ironically people who "btw I use Arch" have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol
I use Bazzite btw
I agree. It’s the ideal choice for gaming, and until recently, I had never heard of it. I can’t imagine going back to Windows 11 unless I was held at gun point and even then.
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precious arch user repository
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.
Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.
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The Windows equivalent of this would basically be the discovery that a bunch of apps on the Microsoft Store were infected with malware.
This really sucks for people that migrated to Linux without becoming Linux experts, and chose a friendly distro based on Arch that came with the AUR, like the often-recommended CachyOS.
The packages on the AUR are all user created. It's not really comparable to the Microsoft Store.
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Nobody is freaking out who isn't a moron.
There are a handful of arch users who eat crayons... if the windows users in 2026 leave any I mean.
I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that's unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I'd just manually install that instead (it shouldn't change if it isn't maintained anyway).
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So, microsoft, how's that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
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Yeah. My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back. The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute. What an OS.
Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it's always unmistakably Adobe's fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
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I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
Best we can do is remind you later.
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The company I work for is currently in the process of switching from our own server and email client to Outlook and OneDrive. It's gonna be a fucking nightmare when we switch.
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Not really windows related but my work wonders why as an IT guy I think it’s a bad idea to force updates the day they come out.
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So, all in all... A relatively decent Windows update compared to the average?
Breaking onedrive? I'm confused. It's like that thing in Southpark "How do you kill that which has no life?"
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.. and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux ..
Clickbait and misleading. Nothing “broke”. The recycling bin works just fine, the name of the file in the confirm delete popup is just displayed wrong.
It isn't the details or severity of the break that matters.
It's that the quality control process is SUPPOSED to catch that, and whatever sorry excuse for a process they're using now ALLOWED a break that was obvious, visible, and repeatable, inside a critical, core function of the operating system, to make it to the end users, something that should trigger as an immediate, flashing warning light. That means the entire quality control process at the very least is SEVERELY compromised and unreliable, and there could very easily be MUCH more severe vulnerabilities and bugs hiding underneath that AREN'T immediately visible. To anyone who has done any professional development for non-disposable code bases, this isn't a whisper of a problem - it's an air horn.
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Well, not mine.
I wonder if that's why my work PC has been having all kinds of stuttering/lag issues. I'm regularly seeing a second or two between clicking/typing at various points throughout the day.
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I dual boot Linux and Windows and it's really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.
It's so jarring to go into Windows.
What's jarring is how using Linux after windows my brain feels slow. Everything opens and loads instantly. Its crazy the difference.
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is there any anecdotal evidence that IT departments are at least considering, thinking about, having an initial assessment of doing anything but just buying whatever slop microsoft is spewing out?
kinda feels like until the river of gold from enterprise sales slows there is no downside to microsoft burning their platform.
my anecdote is that no, IT is still a MS crack addict.
Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft.
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Love that my work laptop had a forced rollout to Win 11. Excuse to have a break when it breaks.
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Fedora KDE. Looks better. Runs better. Never going back.
My work machine forgot the resolution of my presentation monitor after the update. Love it
didn't notice tbf. because i haven't used this goblinshit for months.
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Weird. Monthly updates used to be pretty harmless with a bunch of little bug fixes that really only affected a few people. Then AI came out, and in the past 6 months or so every patch Tuesday has been a complete disaster. It's almost as if they laid off a bunch of engineers and now have the remaining ones just vibe coding shit while using the same LLM to do code review and everything is going to hell. Not that it was a phenomenal product to begin with, but when you have engineers vibe coding patches for such a delecate platform, it's going to end in disaster.
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