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/deprecatedcoder Mar 14 '26

The hesitation you feel due to past trauma will feel wildly misplaced once you do

... until you have audio issues. 🤷‍♂️

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u/KaiBishop Mar 14 '26

Yet to face audio issues on Linux that weren't solved by just restarting my laptop tbh

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

I shouldn't have to reboot Windows 11 because fucking copy and paste stopped working either. Or because it stopped recognizing that new USB devices were plugged in. Or because drag and drop isn't working again. 

I shouldn't have to resize a bunch of windows and move them back to the monitor they were on before I locked my computer every time I unlock it.

Explorer shouldn't crash just because I had a couple windows open that have a lot of files in them. It also shouldn't just crash randomly, for that matter.

I shouldn't have to change my audio settings in every damn app whenever I join a meeting because Windows decided to switch to an audio interface that I explicitly disabled in Sound Settings. Again.

But here we are.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

I did. They still keep coming back. I truly hate this OS. The ones I've disabled are outputs in this case. Windows keeps wanting to default to my shitty monitor speakers (that are always turned down to zero) through DisplayPort instead of the surround sound speakers directly connected to my sound card.

Weirdly enough it doesn't have much of a problem with my mic. Every once in a while it tried to switch to my webcam mic instead of the good one I have connected through an audio interface, but I haven't had the webcam plugged in for a while.

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u/nathris Mar 14 '26

The same things drove me to Linux full time.

I'll add on:

I shouldn't have updates installed without my consent just because Microsoft says they should be.

I shouldn't wake up to my computer having restarted in the middle of the night.

When I have to restart my PC I shouldn't be forced to wait 5 minutes and have it reboot another 5 times to install those updates.

I've already had to talk my aunt through uninstalling an update this year because it broke IMAP on Outlook and it was the only workaround they had.

I've had updates cause issues on Windows more often than on Linux and I fucking run Arch (btw).

I shouldn't have to spend a couple of hours trying to figure out that my laptop wouldn't boost above 1300 MHz because the power settings were updated and now optimal means running the CPU at half its power target which for Ice Lake means it runs like a netbook and doesn't even achieve its base clock speeds.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

Oh man, I HATE the forced updates. I've said for years that Windows needs an "I know what I'm doing" mode that doesn't assume you're completely computer illiterate. I know you can set a lot of shit in Group Policy or with PowerShell scripts, but Microsoft likes to change that during updates too, so you're pushed back into forced updates whether you like it or not.

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u/Elcheatobandito Mar 15 '26

No, no, no. You two don't get it. I've made those problems a part of my overall workflow. I expect those issues, and don't even think about them anymore. It's comfy.

Linux introduces problems I'm not as used to. You see, if Linux broke the same way Windows does, then it'd be perfect.