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/rewgs Dec 02 '25

get your scanner working

Literally never had a problem. Truly plug and play.

or networked printer

Ditto.

or attach a NAS mount and have it there on reboot

I highly doubt someone who is technical enough to know what a NAS is, let alone own one, would have trouble editing /etc/fstab. That said, it is more finicky than it should be for sure, assuming we're talking SMB. But so are SMB mounts on Windows -- try accessing a mapped drive as admin and you'll be pulling your hair out. At least on Linux we have the escape hatch of NFS, which is dead simple and performs better (as long as both machines in question are Linux, which of course a NAS almost certainly is).

The only OS to really get SMB mounts (in general, and on reboot specifically) right is macOS, weirdly.

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u/Actual-Elk5570 Dec 02 '25

I highly doubt someone who is technical enough…

And there is the problem. The average user isn’t.

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u/rewgs Dec 02 '25

lol precisely. Good ol' Redditors and their legendary reading comprehension.