Remember when they announced native Android app support as a main selling feature for Win 11 and then quietly axed it later? The only thing actually drawing people to Win 11 is them pulling the plug on 10, and even that isn’t working that well.
Maybe they should try making a good OS instead of all their other BS.
And now Valve is claiming that Steam Machine will support Android APKs
They already did those shensnigans to force people from 7 to 10.
The 7 to 10 migration was pretty standard. MS has typically supported a Windows version through the lifetime of its successor, only stopping support about the time the release after that comes out. XP was supported until 7, Vista was supported until 8, and 8 was supported until 11 came out. By the usual pattern, 10 should have been supported until 12 came out, not two years after support for 8 was dropped.
Also they arbitrarily set which processors are compatible. I have a pretty fast machine with Athlon that cannot be upgraded officially
The acceleration of agentic coding and the plummet in software quality & reliability aren’t two separate stories. They’re the same story. Even if a particular bug/problem can’t be traced back to a slop source, the proliferation of slop is itself a net drag on software teams and leads to overall deskilling and focus diversion.
We have a duty as industry professionals to fight back, say no, and make sure companies are aware this “new normal” is completely and utterly unacceptable.
But these problems took off way before code assistants were common.
As I alluded to, when that’s the case it’s still now agentic coding to blame because of the diversion of focus. Companies such as Microsoft, instead of improving their existing human-based craft, introduce literal roadblocks to the improvement of craft both in terms of time/resources and also in terms of corporate culture.
Maybe. But even if everyone banned AI instantly, the culture and (I’d argue) massive mismanagement problems aren’t getting any better.
Hence I think it’s iffy to attribute all these software problems to ‘AI’ so quickly, especially before it’s really had time to affect old systems like Microsoft Windows.
Gee that must suck.
Linux keeps on Linuxing
Arch testing is more stable than windows.
Source: Have 4 on-prem, one cloud server and two Desktop devices with arch testing. And one company Windows 11 Laptop and Citrix machines.
Cool.
Are there any Linux distros that are good with both touchscreen and fingerprint scanners? I have a laptop that needs a bigger hard drive, so might as well get a new OS, and its touchscreen with a fingerprint scanner. I use it to look stuff up when I’m using another computer, and to download stuff. That’s about it now that I have a “real gaming computer”.
I use Ubuntu on my other computers, and I like it well enough. I’ve tried mint cinnamon and did not particularly like it. I’m sure ubuntu would be fine to use again, but I’d like to try something else.
Fedora worked well with both before IBM took over. can’t speak to how it is today.
Debian isn’t bad on touchscreens but fingerprint reader support has been shit.
Mint was good on touchscreens as well, but fingerprint reader worked 50% of the time l though that could have been my ancient hardware.
CachyOS is en vogue. I’ve been using it forever, and it’s awesome.
KDE, and I think GNOME, have good support for touchscreens. You can pick either at the start.
For fingerprint readers, looks like you want this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fingerprint_GUI
I am also interested in this answer.
I have no personal experience with fingerprint scanners on Linux, from what I have heard it depends on your laptop with Thinkpads having usually the best support. Regarding the touchscreen, I use Fedora Silverblue on a Surface Go and Project Bluefin on a Thinkpad T480s. Touch works well on both.
“But don’t worry. Our next update will include an agentic self-repair feature based on Copilot that will automatically take initiative to change your settings, delete unnecessary files and read your email. Nothing could possibly go wrong.”
Incoherent anguished screaming
Actually, if that makes it onto the enterprise version of Windows, it could be fun. I’d love to pit Microsoft’s dumbass AI against my company’s dumbass IT policies.
After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 (KB5062553), various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.
Oh good. I had assumed it would effect something important.
Now I gotta run, I’m late having all my extra veins removed.
How to destroy a companies already horrible rep in one product.
It worked the other nine times so…
