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I recently had the misfortune of trying to fix a problem on my kids windows computer and it's striking the difference between Linux and windows forums.
A Linux forum:
"RTFM but here's four commands that will fix your problem plus fix a bunch of things you didn't even know you had a problem with"
A windows forum:
"My name is Mr Anderson and has been awarded high quality question answerer three years running plus best cut lawn by the HOA. I am not affiliated in any way with Microsoft so don't go running to them if you mess up your computer.
Here is fifty eleven things to click on that is highly dependent on the language set on the computer and which is likely changed by Microsoft since I wrote this. The instructions are also highly general and in no way specific for your actual problem."
Anytime I've ever done Microsoft forms or help they've always been worthless. If the actual decent solutions I find are on blogs.
Yup, that's my experience as well.
I've always wondered who tf those weirdos are on the windows support forums. I genuinely wonder if the idea is that they're trying to farm points/answers so they can apply to work for MS support? Like it's just resume fodder for them?
You also forgot the part where at some point the advice they give always includes 'try reinstalling your drivers' as if it's a silver bullet that will magically solve any windows problem. 😑
I'm guessing that's it. Or maybe using their signature as commercials? 🤔
But all of this is if you at all find a page where an actual person has asked a question. Most results on Google when searching an bsod error code is a number of pages spouting the same tired answers that doesn't actually work.
True that. Back when I was using Windows I had a problem where I couldn't log in to my Microsoft account through the apps (only through the browser). It was a problem because I couldn't even create a user account. When I tried to file a support ticket through tje included app... it would prompt me to sign in to my Microsoft account. Couldn't figure out what the problem was myself as everything I had to work with was an ambiguous numerical error code. Trying to search for an answer online only resulted in the exact kind of posts you've described, clearly written by people even more clueless than I was, but pretending they're experts. Never actually resolved it, then switched to Linux and never looked back.