The root cause behind why Windows 11 24H2 appeared to be breaking NVMe SSDs may have finally been found.
TLDR: Pre-release / experimental drive controller firmware was buggy and failing. Do your updates.
I already did update, to Linux. Haven’t run into those kinds of issues since.
It’s a little funny that windows 10 had a massive bug with 100% disk usage with hdd’s. There were “fixes” out there, but they would stop working after awhile. They wanted to make people upgrade their PC back then too.
The problem was Windows duh.
Yeah, this wouldn’t happen on Linux because it’s impossible to install most firmware updates!
That’s not Linux’s fault.
I agree. But it compicates the situation to the point that “durr just use Linux” is kind of a silly solution in this particular case.
Every Windows 11 wreaked SSD is an opportunity to try Mint, Fedora, you name it … and maybe enjoy something different
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This is the exact same BPM as the song I’m listening to… Weird…
Mushroom mushroom
Snaaaake snakkkkeeee oohhhhhh it’s a snaaaakkkkeeeee
It was a better time.
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Using windows is just so tiring. I shouldn’t have to actively fight with the OS to do the things I need to do. Not even power user shit, it’s just that the windows experience gets more and more hostile every year.
Meanwhile, Linux quietly does what needs to be done, and offers to make it even easier to do those things, but only if I want that help.
Oh my god, this.
I spent the whole morning on my day off fighting with my kids’ windows install.
“when I open rope locks and I open chrome at the same time if everything just lags and stutters.” " I think it’s because Chrome is using 30% of my memory up when I open it. Can you help me fix it?"
What started as a educational how things actually work, what matters, what doesn’t matter, quickly evolved into why in the fuck can’t I uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud. Followed by looking up a dozen services I’ve never seen before which are apparently part of Windows now, but have names like corporate products that don’t have anything to do with Windows.
I showed him the start-up and the task scheduler and all the little bits and bobs for things to detect what’s happening. Showed him how to look through the task manager list. Uninstall the stuff that isn’t necessary, reboot, and check again.
Fucking creative Cloud would not uninstall. Hit uninstall. App opens to update. No option but to update.
I’m trying not to go in bull in a china shop because it’s a teaching moment. We search, find to delete the program data and try again. It unlocked it enough that I could log into it, then uninstall. Why the ever-living fuck would you have to log into the app to uninstall it?
We installed sea ccleaner afterwards. And did some cleanup. I did Linux on the desktop for 14 years. Went back to Windows for a few years and dropped back in for NixOS for the past couple of years and God I hate dealing with windows now…
This.
And I didn’t even realize just how exhausting it had gotten until I switched and, even with having to relearn how to do certain things, just never felt like I was having to fight with it. It doesn’t change things and move things around on you at random, it doesn’t pester you constantly to do things unless you explicitly set it up to do so, doesn’t shove an online account down your throat, force you to accept updates on their schedule including reboots when you’re trying to get something done…
No, my machine is my machine and it does what I need and tell it to do, not what some multi trillion dollar company thinks it should do.
I genuinely don’t understand what you have trouble with that you had to fight with. Usually I’ve found it comes down to just not knowing how to do it, or doing something completely out of left field. Honestly Windows “just works”
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Tell me how to show all icons in the taskbar notification area. So I can see all active programs.
Tell me how to pause updates indefinitely until I want to update. Such that my computer doesn’t restart without my sayso, causing me to lose tons of work.
Spoiler, you cannot. A computer I can’t keep turned on, or see my active programs, does not “just work”.
Tell me how to not have a “live” MS account associated with my profile without having to do clandestine IT hijinks, etc
windows is hot trash
Been there, done that.
Fix the shitty, half-assed HDR support first, then I’ll switch. It’s bare-bones and barely functional in Linux. On Windows you can even convert SDR YouTube videos to HDR in real time, right within Firefox. Linux doesn’t have anything like that yet.
I’m genuinely curious:
What are you doing on your PC that HDR is such a dealbreaker? I can’t remember anyone I’ve spoken to about it even giving a shit that HDR is available on anything other than their TVs
Games and YouTube. HDR makes them so much better.
Like I said to the other person, I didn’t spend $1800 on a high-end OLED for no reason. I want to be* able to use every feature it has.
How do you “convert” content to HDR? You have to generate something that doesn’t exist.
Did you pay 2 grand for a high-contrast mode?
Yes I’m aware the added information is fake, but I don’t care cause it still looks better than SDR. The additional fake details especially look good in the highlights. Clouds are a lot more realistic, for one. Looks a lot closer to real life. SDR clouds are much duller, less detailed, and closer to light-gray than white.
Really? Just for HDR?
Yes, really. HDR is a make or break feature for me.
I didn’t spend $1800 on a high-end OLED, only to be unable to fully utilize every feature I paid for.
That’s an outrageous amount for a monitor. How big is it?
I can’t understand where something so trivial and minor like hdr would be more important than not having copilot and one drive shoved down your throat. Personally if I never had any hdr features I wouldn’t bat an eye. Not saying you don’t have a point.
HDR is not “trivial and minor”. It’s a make or break feature for me. I use it every day.
