"Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off... some day... we guess..."

My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!

One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it's OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it's OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.

I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I'd put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).

It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad

And that's why, as Windows 10 is about to expire, I am switching to Linux

Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me constantly, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.

My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won't boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft's bullshit, I'm tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good

AI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.

Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-claims-windows-11-is-innocent-of-killing-ssds-but-the-mystery-continues

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/phison-squashes-reports-of-windows-11-breaking-ssds-says-it-was-unable-to-reproduce-issues-despite-4-500-hours-of-testing-recommends-users-deploy-heatsinks-just-in-case

People witch hunting Phison too.

I fully switched to Linux this year: it's nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.

I'm so glad I get to enjoy Linux every single day.

I went into linux mint. I am certain, CERTAIN, that a windows 10 update probably caused a fundamental HD failure on my old computer. I have hard drives much older and more used than the one I had, yet that HD, which was the main HD I had started to fail. It gave enough life for me to back it up into a massive 14TB backup drive (I keep that one unplugged when not in use) so I didn't lose any data.

But HD failures are rare for me. I am fucking glad I was able to save the data. I need to put that drive to some old fashion electronic recycling.

I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.

I tried to rollback this update and either somehow did something incredibly wrong, or windows decided to bug out. It slowed the PC horribly, and I had to reinstall windows 11. Such a pain

I first used an early gen/model ssd on linux, it promptly died due to constant log writes. oops.

then I used platter until nvme came out.

then I 'needed' (forced to use specific config) windows for work so I set up a second computer.

from then to now I've had 4 ssd and 1 platter death under windows and nothing with linux even constantly distrohopping on the linux drive. not including the shared usb drives at least.

FUCK that better not be what happened to my computer.