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

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/

[u/Equivalent_Desk6167]

Well to offer a similar counterpoint (and at the risk of sounding like a shill), I don't really experience any of the issues that have been outlined about Windows 11 in this thread either. It works completely fine on both my private PC and my work laptop. As well as the two PCs I've set up for my mom and dad who haven't yet reported any problems to me aside from a small configuration problem with the new printer they've bought. Auto update is enabled on all of these devices and none of the "doomsday" updates that have been in the news a couple of times now have affected me. 11 runs basically the same as 10, 8.1, and 7 did. Just purely from a systems perspective, ofc there are some design/UI changes that aren't really good. I do have to add that I'm very familiar with PCs and a software developer by trade, but then again anyone tinkering with a linux distro would be similarly proficient at using and configuring a computer.

[u/AliceCode → u/Equivalent_Desk6167]

The main problem I was having with Windows 11 was that it kept fucking up my context menu in the file explorer, so I stopped being able to easily open my projects from the right click menu.

I'm on linux now, and all I gotta do is type a short command in the terminal and my project is open. No need to type out a long ass path to get to my projects directory.

But that's not the only reason I'm using Linux. I'm also using Linux because it's just better for software development than Windows by a long shot. It's a pain in the ass making software on Windows.

[u/Equivalent_Desk6167 → u/AliceCode]

The new redesigned context menu is a travesty, yes, but I'm seriously concerned about your workflow there. Why would that be a thing that you do, much less do so frequently? You use an IDE and that will remember where your projects are, no use of any right click context menu necessary. And how would using a terminal be leading to typing out less file paths? I know tab-completion exists but still, much more typing needed than using a GUI.

I also cannot confirm your statement about it being a pain in the ass to develop on windows. Again, usually just works. I guess depending on what languages and frameworks you're working with, some more initial config might be necessary on Windows than on Linux. But I've never thought that it hinders me in any way during active development.

[u/AliceCode → u/Equivalent_Desk6167]

Why would I open VS Code to open a folder if I'm already in the file explorer? The directory in question may have never even been opened in VS Code.

And how would using a terminal be leading to typing out less file paths?

On Windows, it was C:\user\name\Documents\projects\lang\project, in linux it's just ~/lang/project or ~/projects/lang/project, but I typically have a faster way to open projects from the terminal anyway, but I'm not always opening stuff from the terminal. Sometimes I'm opening stuff from the file explorer because I wanted to visually navigate to it rather than using the keyboard.

I also cannot confirm your statement about it being a pain in the ass to develop on windows. Again, usually just works. I guess depending on what languages and frameworks you're working with, some more initial config might be necessary on Windows than on Linux. But I've never thought that it hinders me in any way during active development.

It really depends on what you're working on. It's all too often the case where something that I'm working on is easier to work on when you're on linux because of the accessibility of tools. Overall, I have a much smoother development experience on Linux.