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KB5077181 was released about a month ago as part of the February Patch Tuesday rollout. When the update first arrived, users reported a wide range of problems, including boot loops, login errors, and installation issues.

Microsoft has now acknowledged another problem linked to the same update. Some affected users see the message “C:\ is not accessible – Access denied” when trying to open the system drive.

      • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I think .net is pretty good. I don’t use it, but people seem to love VS Code.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        97·
        1 day ago

        I don’t know about that, XP, 2000 and 7 was pretty solid.

          • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            Reputation is such a strange phenomenon. XP was considered a disaster at launch. It took them years to repair everything that didn’t work.

            The rollout of 64 bit architecture support was so sloppy that people were holding on to old hardware so as to not have to install the x64 version of XP. The premiere of the NT kernel meant that nothing had drivers, most software wasn’t compatible yet. DirectX 9 broke half of old games compatibility. There were also two entirely different versions of the shell with dramatically different start menus. Some versions didn’t support multi core CPUs.

            Not to mention that XP actually spans three different OSs. Upgrades were just a reinstall wizard of the OS.

            It wasn’t until the end life of XP and the launch of Vista that people started to cling to XP SP2 and its reputation switched due to a mix of nostalgia and fear of the much worse launch of Vista.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      It is a hell of a lot less buggy

      And the bugs that are there we are aware of. Microsoft may or may not fix severe security bugs, opting to hide the information instead because it’s better for their bottom line

      Microsoft always had been a bug riddled mess that people paid for and then they needed to pay even more to be able to get their shit still working

      Now with the AI slop apparently contributing 30% of the code, things have gone off a cliff

      So no, nobody is pretending Linux is bug-less, it’s just that Microsoft is that bad

    • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
      33·
      12 hours ago

      The downvotes for this little nugget of truth suggest to me that linux fans are somewhat cultish.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        22·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah, I made my comment as I am tired of fanboyism, I have daily driven Linux in the past, I was the Linux sysadmin at a major financial institution for years, Linux is awesome!

        But please don’t get arrogant and claim it is faultless, with constructive criticism it can only get better.

        Right now I am running Windows as my daily, and my work is only in Windows.

        I dailied Linux back in the 2.8 days, I remember a class mate having to manually edit the kernel source code to get his USB mobile broadband modem to work, I had modems from another brand, so I only had to run USB mode switcher to get mine working.

        I set up Fluxbox from scratch to get a fantastic UI experience on my laptop.

        I know Linux.

        I switched back to Windows for gaming, and now with W11 and gaming support for Linux, I am looking to move back to Linux.

        I am no Windows nor Linux fanboy.

        • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          9 hours ago

          It’s not so much Linux fanboyism as it is Windows (whatever the total polar opposite of fanboyism is)

          The only good argument for Windows is specific software compatibility. If there were equivalent solutions on both for everything, it is an absolute truth that Windows is worse.

          That is not an opinion, outside of intentionally wanting to be commercially oppressed.

          Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.

            Wow, how quickly people forget…

            Back in 2011, with kernel 2.8.x, gaming on Linux was nothing like it is today, it required dedication, skills and time.

            And at the time I didn’t have the energy to deal with it.