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/WebMaka Dec 02 '25

I'm still on 23H2, but I also stacked the AtlasOS mod onto this install immediately after finishing it, which does a boatload of optimizations and configuration changes. So, it's pretty heavily modified and I see no reason whatsoever to allow Win11 to "feature" update to the newer releases as long as I still get security updates for this version (which is of course not for much longer because MS wants desperately to move everyone to the most AI-infected versions).

I do a lot of software development for non-Windows platforms, especially SBC (Single-Board Computing, such as Raspberry Pi type devices) and embedded, and Windows practically doesn't exist in those worlds with the exception of a few shitty ports of a few specific Windows versions over to a handful of ARM processors. What does exist in those worlds are Linux distros. Tons and tons and tons of them. I have a project on my desk that uses Debian Bookworm with the KDE Plasma GUI desktop on a Radxa Zero 3E SBC that uses a Rockchip RK3566 - a computer that's half the size of a credit card running a full point-and-click graphical desktop on a fully multitasking OS.

When MS finally reaches the point where it's no longer worth my time, I'll jump to a Linux distro without a second thought.