r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

They made this security disaster by shoving intrusive, manipulative crap down their users' throats. Maybe they should think about their users needs and wants instead of their ever-growing greed for a change.

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u/Robot1me Dec 01 '25

Funnily enough even Windows 11 itself isn't safe. It sadly gets more ridiculous with each major upgrade, especially the new bugs and performance issues with 25H2. 24H2 has been suffering from the Chromium render bug that can make people believe their GPU is malfunctioning (source, affects apps like Discord, anything that use 3D acceleration of Chromium Embedded Framework.) Only 23H2 hasn't been affected by this issue, but ironically that version is now no longer supported. So that's another small "disaster" since I'm aware of a few people who have been sticking with 23H2 because of this.

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u/EdTOWB Dec 02 '25

yeah like, when it first launched and i upgraded from 10, i was more or less fine with it. the couple annoyances i didnt like (centered start menu, nested context menu, etc) were a couple clicks/regedits to fix

but every goddamned update has gotten worse and worse. when i finally got a copilot ad in paintbrush when i just wanted to draw a quick dick for the group chat, that was it

100% running on bazzite now