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by rincebrain 211 days ago
I don't think even this is true any more.

Windows used to have a solid technical foundation and was working on improving longstanding historical warts (font processing in the kernel, what could go wrong?), regardless of how off the rails the end user experience was getting.

Now, Windows seems to be rotting from every direction. The user experience is going straight for minmaxing data harvesting and antipatterns, and the technical underbelly is showing horrible problems getting into releases. [1][2], to pick a couple recent examples.

[1] - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11-...

[2] - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/october-...
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renegade-otter 210 days ago
#2 made me reinstall Windows 11 last week. It's incredible. How do you NOT test USB input in recovery.

Also, think about this for a second - you are supposed to wait every 30 minutes until "Microsoft finds a solution".

No one is finding a solution to your boot problems - this is some manager's failed attempt to shove AI everywhere, and the results are catastrophic.

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