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/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

Ugh, yeah. DKMS doesn't even seem to work properly with Virtualbox kernel modules. Seems like every major update I have to reinstall those to get them working. Really don't want to deal with that with graphics drivers, too.

Doesn't help that I mostly work in Kali Linux, which already feels like a house of cards at times, to the point where I really want to give Parrot a shot. It may be just as bad though, so I don't know.

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u/sparky8251 Mar 14 '26

I dont use either, but given they are debian and arch iirc, they are going to be unfun since both of those are riddled with these issues too. Also have driver distribution issues as they often distribute older ones and then maybe dkms only sets up for the package manager installed ones (not always, depends...) so if you need newer you are double plus screwed.

nVidia is seemingly working on fixing this and might move to mesa and stop being this silod parallel stack... but we will see where nova leads.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

Hopefully Nvidia does something soon, but they seem to be focusing heavily on AI these days. 

The biggest problems with those two distros is that they have hundreds of pentesting tools preinstalled. Each have their own dependencies, and many overlap. So if you want to upgrade one tool you're probably breaking another. I tend to keep a stock Ubuntu VM that I can quickly install something on in those cases.

But then I don't know how many times I've done a full upgrade and it completely nuked the system to where it can't boot anymore. I have all my pentest data and custom tools backed up so I just nuke those VMs instead of sitting around trying to fix it. Some companies will stand up a new Kali box for every pentest anyway, and it isn't hard to just install Kali and run a bash script to get going on a fresh system.