The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

[Curry Teafag]

I have heard credible rumors that jeets + AI - QA have fucked up the Win 11 source so bad they have no idea what the fuck to do.

A few days ago, I had to scan and also print a few document pages. For no apparent reason, I couldn't print from Win 11. The print job seemed to be never arriving at the printer. Neither LAN nor USB cable did the trick. USB has always worked before.

I tried with Server 2025 (same codebase), which had the exact same problem.

Well, I also have a few Win 10 machines, so I tried one of these. Printed immediately.

 

[Miller]

The laptop comes with bloatware that is tied to shit stuff that updates the firmware. Fuck you whoever decided that.

I hate the ASUS' Armoury Crate.

 

[Beavis]

Re-release windows 10 but call it windows 27

 

[Curry Teafag]

Re-release windows 7 but call it windows '7

FTFY

 

[Betonhaus]

Just continue to support Windows 10 and quietly let OEMs start selling computers with it preinstalled

 

[Kosher Dill]

Just continue to support Windows 10 and quietly let OEMs start selling computers with it preinstalled

That could probably never happen because of the driver situation. Too many drivers out there that were only tested with whatever the latest build of Windows was at the time they were written. Even in the Win10 days there were already drivers marked as "Compatible with anything back to 2015 LTSB" but really "Compatible with whatever version has all the APIs I used, good luck bro".
Given that Microsoft's overriding goal is not to spend any time being the planet's tech support desk, I don't see it happening.

 

[Betonhaus]

That could probably never happen because of the driver situation. Too many drivers out there that were only tested with whatever the latest build of Windows was at the time they were written. Even in the Win10 days there were already drivers marked as "Compatible with anything back to 2015 LTSB" but really "Compatible with whatever version has all the APIs I used, good luck bro".
Given that Microsoft's overriding goal is not to spend any time being the planet's tech support desk, I don't see it happening.

Worst case scenario is that there is a gap where devices made from 2024-2028 are poorly supported while everything before or after works fine, but really if Microsoft is forced to admit that Windows 11 is a disaster and they will be rolling back to 10 then device makers will have to support it.

There might literally be an era where all the companies that made their flagship software into ai slop will be rolling back to the last good version, and that version will support Windows 10.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Worst case scenario is that there is a gap where devices made from 2024-2028 are poorly supported while everything before or after works fine, but really if Microsoft is forced to admit that Windows 11 is a disaster and they will be rolling back to 10 then device makers will have to support it.

There’s industrial equipment to this day running Windows XP and even DOS because of some driver their entire company revolves around.

There’s still ATM’s running OS/2 Warp.

 

[Voloromir of bad Yuristan]

I hate the ASUS' Armoury Crate.

I honestly hate that you need their proprietary apps to update the bios, or in the case of asus, to fix their faulty firmware they coded it specifically that way so you have to install their bullshit apps.
I still remember my old intel 13th gen strix scar 16 that came with the audio firmware basically broken on purpose and you needed the official asus windows drivers to fix it, basically making audio not work ootb on windows or at all on linux, at least until the chip maker released a driver with the fix,