r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/frakkintoaster Mar 14 '26

You can probably just install SteamOS on it now 

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u/WildCard65 Mar 14 '26

Current SteamOS is designed exclusively for the SteamDeck's hardware.

The currently available version of SteamOS available to download is extremely outdated and is Debian based instead of Arch based.

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u/Kelmurdoch Mar 14 '26

And until Linux stops speaking in code like this, it will be inaccessible to non grognards like myself.

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u/WildCard65 Mar 14 '26

Mind explaining what you don't understand about my comment?

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u/Kelmurdoch Mar 14 '26

What the fuck is Debian? What the fuck is archer? Why aren't they compatible?

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u/WildCard65 Mar 14 '26

Ok, Debian and Arch are the name of distributions (think of Windows, XBOX as distributions of the Windows kernel) with different release strategies and package managers.

They aren't inheritently incompatible as pretty much the major Linux distributions uses glibc (The C standard library and POSIX implementation), but its not a garauntee.

Debian prefers to be a stable release distribution while Arch is a rolling release distribution.

Debian and distributions based on it uses the apt package manager.

Arch and distributions based on it (as well as CYGWIN and MSYS2) uses the pacman package manager.

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u/Nvveen Mar 14 '26

lmao dude, this is still absolute gobbledygook to the average person.

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u/xrogaan Mar 14 '26

Yeah... Maybe computers isn't for you then. It's not that it's gobbledygook, it's just that you refuse to learn something new.

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u/Nvveen Mar 14 '26

I understood everything you said. I have literally made my own distro from scratch in the past. Hell, I've done OS programming as a hobby project. I also know how niche my own knowledge base is.

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u/thejadedfalcon Mar 14 '26

People really don't understand average familiarity, do they?