I've run over 100 Linux servers, and the number of issues that weren't my incredible incompetence, not zero, not very low. I'll be fair, I've run a couple of dozen Windows server, and it's not 100% for issues, but it's most of them. Furthermore, I've seen a server change its own group policy settings, a few times. I've never seen a Linux server, change it's sysctl, ever.

Topics do drift you know. Perhaps I have a different metric, but an Update that causes programs to stop working, renaming files, placing programs and files to OneDrive.

The effect is remarkable similar to a crash. And to me, a failure of Windows that I do not have with Mac or Linux

A computer should be an appliance. I have work to do. Spending time fixing a messed up Windows machine really wrecks productivity It only takes a few minutes of my burn rate and productivity loss to far exceed the cost of having a functioning computer.

For a hobbyist, maybe. For people making money and providing a service, computer downtime is a serious problem.

Oh good to see you came in here to set the record straight. Even Microsoft is wrong. Google Windows 11 is a disaster and find out how everyone is wrong.

Here's your problem. While you focus on a monovariant, that for some reason, the only problem is drivers. What about endless reboot loops, mystery fails on updates, changing names of critical files, moving programs and or critical program files to one drive, causing program failure and/or crashes.

Blaming it on drivers, and not using enterprise level equipment just no longer works. All that is doing is blaming the user, the old concept of "Microsoft cannot fail, only we can fail Microsoft."

The upshot of all this is plain. Windows is fundamentally broken, regressing under Windows 11. And if all the problems are the users fault, they can migrate to an OS where they don't cause all those problems.

Is it boasting though? Not having crashes should be the expected situation. A pity it is considered a flex.

It's like boasting that your refrigerator keeps food cold. 8^)

Well, I do the same things on My Macs and Linux computers. Yet they don't crash. But the same things on Windows machines do. I fear our friends logic doesn't hold up on any level.

might as well post the issues here https://www.windowscentral.com... https://www.neowin.net/news/mi...

Microsoft is saying W11 is broken, while the faithful here claim it is only poorly written drivers. And the anger is so intense that Microsoft disabled comments on social media. Here, they blame the users.

And the users? They've heard it all before... https://www.pcworld.com/articl....

Wut? Is this 2000 or something? I haven't had a driver issue since around 2005, and during installs, Linux just goes out and grabs drivers.

That's hilarious and true, like what does enabling a "Don't allow" for "Block and Restrict" do? Every single option I had to copy into DuckDuckGO and read what it actually did, and what the settings meant. It's not a case where the setting is confusing because I'm an idiot, it's confusing because it's written poorly. Contrast group policy to sysctl config, it's night and day.

The bigger issue I have with group policy, if so many of the options should be enabled by default, why aren't they? Policy for security and auditing should be opt-out, not opt-in, and even if they did want it opt-in, make it easy and clear to enable. How many hundreds of options could be enabled by default? I've turned a metric crap load of option on since November 2025, and no one has complained, so clearly they should be on, so why aren't they?

Intune and Defender for Endpoint will tell you dozens of options that should be enabled... WHAT?! Wait so Microsoft knows they should be on, but didn't turn them on, but want you to turn them on, but don't tell you to turn them on, unless you pay, and run a complex system of enrolment? At least when it's complaining about Linux setting in sysctl, they're dealing with outlier extra tinfoil accent style setting, not fundamental the system is a screen door slamming against a broken jam at the slightest gust of wind setting.

This! I get to see the hell people go through just to have a Windows 11 computer - as well as my own travails. At this point, my Windows machines get used for a few remaining tasks, then put back in the case, while I use machines that stay working.

People can try to blame it on drivers - which is only one of the failure mechanisms. People can blame it on Macs closed ecosystem which means that hardware and software are written for each other - by Apple, which means that.....get ready for it.....it works!

And then there are the weird problems, like renaming audio drivers, moving freaking programs to the cloud and removing them from the machine, as well as mystery changes that you just give up and fix it, then wait for it to happen again.

My Macs and Linux machines don't have this problem. Productivity is much better when you have almost 0 downtime.

I can't support that, let's assume Windows is a quality OS, if they want to show off that quality, you need to show it off, not leave it to some end user to configure, tweak, adjust, enforce, and then see the hidden quality. The options are baked in, and clearly they know what should be enabled, just enrol with Intune or Defender for Endpoint, and it will tell you that those setting should be enabled. If they know they should be, why aren't they?

That's not my concern, if hardware problems are causing OS level problems, the OS just isn't ready for mainstream deployment. Maybe Microsoft has to call out certain companies, publicly, like Linus did / does, but that's Microsoft's job.

Ya, it's a difficult question, but in any case the girls get a say in how their likeness is used.

Yes, yes it is, Windows is a terrible operating system, and we need to keep reinforcing that, so we don't normalize crap.

I dunno about you, but My Macs get pushed pretty hard. They continue to work. My latest hasn't crashed yet. And my Windows machines on W11 can crash after an update, not particularly hard work.

The meme of Mac Users as stupid is just that - a meme.

The most adroit computer users I know use MacOS and Linux. I group them together because MacOS is Unix, and Linux is Unix-y. Despite the meme of the retarded Mac User, and the smug Linux user, these are power users. I spend almost as much time in Terminal on My Mac as I do in the GUI - sometimes more.

My present Mac Mini has never crashed. Had for over a year now (M4) My newer Lenovo has had update issues, kidnapped files and put them on one drive, causing them to stop working, and mystery audio issues, changing names, also making the associated program stop working. These are not the driver issues claimed by some as the only reason Windows crashes. These are systemic regression of Windows 11.

Regardless, some of us want computing devices that fscking work! not excuses for why our computers work - some times.