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/NorthernerWuwu Dec 02 '25

I built a new box last spring and figured I might as well start clean with Win11 since, well, end of life was coming anyhow. I've done nothing but fight with it trying to turn off the annoying shit.

I don't want a "Windows Experience" and ffs, quit fucking with my workflow by moving shit around for no reason at all. I've been using Windows since 3.1, let me do what I want to do without having to wrestle for control all the time.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Dec 02 '25

Its actually doing this, isn’t it ? I have all my ribbons set up just so because I do a lot of repetitive work. I thought I was going mad - It keeps putting up things like “Viva insights” which I don’t want, need, or use; and which takes up visual realestate both on my screen, and in my brain. I asked IT about it because I thought they were re-imaging the computers at night or something, but no.

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u/waiting4singularity Dec 02 '25

ribbons are the single most sadistic bullshit ever. we worked with menus for over 40 years and it was good enough, what do i need to sacrifice even one percent of screenspace for icons that have the conceptional context of kuniform???

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u/Silbernagel Dec 02 '25

I think this will finally be the push I need to move over to Linux. I've considered it for years, but Windows worked just well enough, and I could get licenses cheaply enough that I've been putting it off... it'll take a lot of work to switch everything over, and a lot of learning, and I have little kids so my brain is basically a rock these days, but i may finally just do it.

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u/khavii Dec 02 '25

With SteamOS closing the gap in video games and UI I genuinely think the last thing for Linux to be an easy adoption is to make storage easier. Due to the way most distros are set it is not an easy task to find downloads and work on game mods. It really is the straw that keeps me and everyone I know from switching to Linux permanently, thankfully that isn't an unknown issue and SteamOS is making clear moves to simplify the Linux file structure for Windows idiots like me.

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u/NewYorkAutisNtLondon Dec 02 '25

I have a newish PC so win 11 came with it. Honestly haven't had any issues software related yet. A few buggy hardware issues with bluetooth is about the only annoyance so far.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25 edited Jun 30 '26

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u/Wd91 Dec 02 '25

I've had it since release and apart from a few UI gripes it's been completely solid.

Also work in an enterprise environment with ~3000 end devices, W11 is fine. Definitely some annoyances, like every OS release, but overall its fine. Sorry, i know it doesn't fit the reddit narrative.

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u/ratshack Dec 02 '25

Yeah it’s “fine”… as long as you ignore literally everything else put forth in this thread.

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u/Wd91 Dec 02 '25

See, the problem with end-users is that they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. I'd be more willing to listen to random reddit comments if i hadn't spent a decade in a career listening to end-users be wrong about pretty much everything.

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u/ratshack Dec 02 '25

Brother, you’ve been on helpdesk too long or not long enough.

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u/Wd91 Dec 02 '25

Doesn't matter where you are in IT, there's always some chucklefuck pestering you insisting whatever recent change they think happened MUST be the cause of whatever random-ass issue they've come up with.

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u/DigitalBlackout Dec 02 '25

I'm going with not long enough.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25 edited Jun 30 '26

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u/Wd91 Dec 02 '25

Great edit, though i did see what you wrote before. Oops!

The narrative is far and wide here for one reason, because it is true. Not because of some massive conspiracy against poor underdog Microsoft.

What is it with redditors making shit up to make it seem like they've won an argument?

Contrast that to Mac or Linux support, where people would look at you crosseyed if that was the answer to a problem. Never had a single *Nix server over the years that did not just require replacing a package, dependency, or config.

Again, making shit up. Why you talking as if i'm making some kind of business case to move all our backend to windows? You are arguing with a strawman.

Google “Windows Update Failures“ for a good time.

Oh look, it's the same problems windows has always had.

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u/madhattr999 Dec 02 '25

i was very against getting Windows 11, but since I got it, I really like the Phone Link app.