Linux Users:
Ironically people who “btw I use Arch” have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol
This was just this week
I use Bazzite btw
Sweet
What a gamers nexus normie!
Nexus is a good channel, but normies don’t even know what linux is. Steve may be tech Jesus but he’s no linux bro.
precious arch user repository
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.
Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.
Maybe so. I use cachy just for the record, so I’m not piling on with linux hate. I’m just enjoying the madness of it all. :)
FYI, CachyOS is Arch based. It has access to the AUR. If you weren’t effected, that proves the point.
The AUR is a repository of last resort. It’s useful, but you should be careful. That’s true even before this even. It’s a repository made by users, and is not verified.
CachyOS not only is Arch, it uses packages from AUR out of the box
Nobody is freaking out who isn’t a moron.
There are a handful of arch users who eat crayons… if the windows users in 2026 leave any I mean.
I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that’s unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I’d just manually install that instead (it shouldn’t change if it isn’t maintained anyway).
This is why I love flatpak and sandboxing in general
Flatpak ruules!
DAE BOF SIDES
I use Arch, btw. But no, I wouldn’t blame my incompetence on my distro even if I were infected, which I wasn’t.
lmao, but yea- lesson learned anyway 🥀 never will install random packages without properly checking it, Got too carried away by "yay -Essing everything :sob:
Not my linux 😎
I actually do use arch btw, however there really isnt anything to freak out over because I barely even use the aur and am just not updating from the aur for the time being. Its really not a big deal.
Which is honestly just as hilarious, because I use Ubuntu just trigger Arch nerds.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
Lol, I’d rather have AUR malware than Snap packages. You do you, friend. All the arch based distros are fine, only the AUR is affected, so unless someone goes out of their way to use the AUR they’re golden.
I partially chose Linux Mint to skip the whole snap nonsense. I seriously don’t get how it’s been so accepted in various distros.
For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it’s better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap’s problems aren’t as visible
Kubuntu minimal install doesn’t have snaps.
Until you install Firefox, that is.
You can still override it to install the apt package, same with thunderbird.
Doing something to spite strangers is the most pathetic thing you could possibly do.
Hahaha I eat crayons so other people get mad
Neat.
So, microsoft, how’s that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
Idk how to tell you, but it’s AI that found the vulnerabilities created by humans in the first place… Of course they didn’t have to use AI to fix the discovered vulnerabilities, but it would’ve taken a lot longer and more than like still be riddled with bugs
How is falling to show the name of a file in the recycle bin fixing a vulnerability?
It isn’t. They patched a shit ton of vulnerabilities. In the process, the broke the recycle bin confirmation.
I don’t know how to tell you this, or actually I do: They vibecoded the update.
I know. I said as much. But they vibe coded patches to vulnerabilities found by AI. Vulnerabilities created by humans
well yeah, humans make mistakes that ai is capable of finding but so does ai which also makes mistakes frequently.
companies that use ai for bug fixing are spending extra on ai only for the ai to create Spaghetti code and require humans to go back and fix it anyway.
Ai is good for quick code generation but when it comes to larger scale projects like creating an operating system its much better used as a tool to support devs rather then the other way round.
I just don’t want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
Best we can do is remind you later.
You can delete it from your run registry, and uninstall it by running
%systemroot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstallUnattendedwinstall from memstechtips. Amazing experience. For further tweaking, cttwinutil.
I second this, along with removing
kamikazeI mean Copilot.
The company I work for is currently in the process of switching from our own server and email client to Outlook and OneDrive. It’s gonna be a fucking nightmare when we switch.
Not IT, but my fortune 500 employer has been on MS365 since my day one. Judging by the issues we fight with every day with those products, may God help you.
When my work forced the transition from 10 to 11 is when all of my computer issues began.
… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …
So, all in all… A relatively decent Windows update compared to the average?
is there any anecdotal evidence that IT departments are at least considering, thinking about, having an initial assessment of doing anything but just buying whatever slop microsoft is spewing out?
kinda feels like until the river of gold from enterprise sales slows there is no downside to microsoft burning their platform.
my anecdote is that no, IT is still a MS crack addict.
People can barely use Windows and it’s been around for 30 years.
I am not teaching 180+ staff how to use Macs or Linux.
I’m not an MS fanboy by any means, but my job is hard enough without adding extra shit sprinkles on top.
Fuck that.
You obviously have zero knowledge about working in that environment.
I am not teaching 180+ staff how to use Macs or Linux.
It’s not like they know how to use Windows either.
aww, chear up, here have a hug (*˘︶˘*).｡*♡
It’s because they sell all of their products as a vendor package with advertised SLAs and “discounts”.
If your company needs cloud stuff and you happen to want Azure, you’re basically getting locked into Teams.
Unlike specialty software like Adobe, pretty much everything Microsoft offers has feature parity or superior alternatives, it just relies on the fact that businesses aren’t stuck on any one of their products.
There are actually a handful of companies that only use MacOS or Linux, but it requires both your IT team and management to be competent enough to throw MSFT away, which is much harder to do in a legacy settings when your entire domain infara is a 20+ year old AD domain.
The IT dept at my work uses exclusively Microsoft shit. Like, google products are banned on my work phone, as is pretty much everything else. They said this is for security and to help them remain GDPR compliant. As you might imagine, it’s shit.
google products are banned on my work phone
Including Play Store?
Not entirely. It’s an android so it does have the play store, but only about a dozen apps are allowed to be installed. I can’t even install what 3 words, which my work uses constantly. Also I’d like to install the Google swipe keyboard, cos the Microsoft one is shit.
Basically, the combination of a device that’s locked down hard and it only allowing MS products makes my work slower and harder than it needs to be.
Work phones are usually iPhones, so yes
Ha, rich people problems.
So glad to be off of this shitshow
Same. Happy new Linuxer.
Yes. I finally switched my work laptop to Linux last year, and it feels like so many bullets dodged.
I dual boot Linux and Windows and it’s really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.
It’s so jarring to go into Windows.
I kept windows on my machine just in case too but I haven’t needed it for at least 6 months now. I don’t depend on any crazy proprietary software for my work and most Steam games work just fine so I’m thinking of getting rid of it altogether.
Hello dual-boot brother.
Same.
Love that my work laptop had a forced rollout to Win 11. Excuse to have a break when it breaks.
didn’t notice tbf. because i haven’t used this goblinshit for months.
goblinshit
My new favorite descriptor. Nice job!
MICROSOFT who encourages employees to us AI to code things? \s
Serious question, what is causing Microsoft to consistently put out bad products and broken updates?
Copilot
Somewhere around the end of Windows 8, they fired all of their testers
Now they’re using AI to make patches
It’s been a steady decline, not a fast decline
A major problem is backwards compatibility. There is so much infrastructure that would break if they wanted to redo portions of code in a more correct fashion. They have a massive variety of systems, and they’re all integrated. Any time they want to do something, they’re scared of something breaking. This time, AI is finding a shit ton of the vulnerabilities that are in these systems, and at least in part fixing them. It’s unclear how much of the code is written or review by humans. But they’re making changes to try to fix these vulnerabilities, and things are breaking. The Microsoft code is a giant fucking spaghetti mess, which means it’s bloated, slow, insecure, inefficient, and overall shitty. It’s not profitable enough to fix all of this, too. Fixing shit you already have doesn’t get shareholders attentions. So it’s AI in everything instead. New shiny stuff to keep the adult babies with all the money happy
Interesting. I wonder when it will actually collapse in itself in a way where they have to start over
Copilot and C*Os.
My work machine forgot the resolution of my presentation monitor after the update. Love it
Good thing I dont use Windoze 11
