Manual Correction is a weird way of saying Install Linux
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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That's funny you should say that, because that's EXACTLY what I did due to the above issue.
Nice what distro you pick
Debian. For the sweet, sweet, rock stable-ness.
Good choice new version is just around the corner as well
So, basically, “fuck you, we broke it, you deal with it.”
Would suck if I paid ~200$ for an official Win 11 Pro licence just to have Microsoft fuck up my system to the point where I have to reinstall everything
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Yeah screw this non GDPR compliant website.
My bad I've copy pasted the article directly into the post.
MS: Why won’t people upgrade from Windows 10?
This reminds me of the Blaster Worm back in the early 2000s. Infected users had to patch their PC without the internet, because connecting is what would cause you to reboot (so many PCs were infected it was basically instant). I worked at a computer store and we burned a bunch of patch CDs and were giving them out like hotcakes. My boss decided to slap a price tag on them for a day or two but we convinced him the good will was worth the cost and he eventually made it free again. People were fucking pissed off and handing out the free CD made them very grateful.
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I REALLY wanna see normies "manually correct" their Win 11 machines after bragging about M$ supremacy for so long.
Annoying warning keeps showing up at boot -> bring the PC to the nearest computer-literate person, and they'll fix it. Good luck doing the same if you use Linux.
Atm if you use Linux you either are computer-literate yourself or have someone in your circle (even if it is an online friend) who is and who can help and if we ever got to the point where a random normie suddenly has Linux on their machine I'd assume someone at the computer store will be able to fix it
Sure, but I don't see how any of that disproves the current "M$ supremacy" for "normies" - the fact is that people who couldn't care less about how their computers work will have a much easier time using Windows (and probably macOS) than any Linux distro. You don't have to worry that some software won't be available to you because of your choice of the OS, and if you ever have a problem it's easy to find help.
I haven't used Windows in a decade on my personal computers, but as long as these two things hold true, it will always be my recommended OS for people who simply don't care - I'm not going to spend my time doing free IT support for everyone I know and then get blamed everytime something doesn't work.
Ahh got it thx
Someone who gives up without even googling will def have that problem. But I for myself see the intervals in which my machine breaks increase a lot (and it's not only because of more experience) and especially immutables could decrease the risk to break Linux to a point where it is close to zero (with the nice side effect that it is easier to maintain for both the pc admin and the distro manufacturer).
Also: My experience (and that may differ a lot from the normie perspective) is that as soon as you are able to check forums for help with software at least the beginner friendly/popular distros are less painful to fix when your Windows pc got screwed. And the overall tone in Linux forums has softened a lot compared to when I first briefly tried a distro in 2016 (I returned in 2020 during the pandemic because I had the time and proton had been announced).
Quick: how do we leverage this to disable forced updates?!
Disabling security updates is not such a good idea...
24h2 has tried to force install on my machine I work with 4 times now. It wastes an hour or so each attempt, then crashes and automatically rolls back.
This machine otherwise is up to date and has no other issues.
The failed attempts have forced me to plan on the machine being unusable for the first chunk of my morning, and on each attempt performance bogs down while it does the pre-game crap.
I'm not wanting to disable security updates... I want to disable the forced "feature" update.