Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.

You mean voluntary in the sense that college is voluntary? By a similar logic, so is work?

XP was the first NT-version with a Home Edition. If you’d been running Windows 2000 at home you would’ve felt the same way (XP is basically just 2000 with a facelift, NT 5.0 to NT 5.1) and even NT4 was pretty good (though 2000 was better).

The 9x series (95, 98, ME) were built on a different kernel and designed specifically for home use and were, in comparison, terrible. ME was especially terrible as they tried to bring plug-and-play to the 9x core without NT’s hardware abstraction layer and shit did not work well.

Windows 7 ran well on machines that ran Vista barely usable. Vista deserved the hate it got.

Work has rolled everyone over to Windows 11 and I have to agree with many of the other replies. It's the most half baked OS they've released in a really long time. Really idiotic stuff happens... Like the snapshot and calculator tools just randomly refusing to start. And Outlook randomly refuses to recognize certain key inputs for a few minutes at a time (while other running apps continue to work just fine). Just really annoying.

As someone who has been around since the DOS days, I can tell you that while there has been an uptick in more severe and ridiculous bugs the last few years, we are definitely nowhere even close to MSs worst.
Really this is just another loop around the old 'fire everyone with experience and hire cheaper labor' cycle that they like to do on a regular loop.

Pass me whatever you're on mate

I use CachyOS.

Which is based on Arch btw…

Mint, Bazzite and Debian

Binbows back at it again lmfao

My scrollwheel input from my mouse will just stop working for a bit in a certain window. But will continue working in a different window.

Don't think it's just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.

Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

I too have experienced the funky unresponsive File Explorer bug.
A second window worked even while the first was still unresponsive.

Also on linux myself, but clearly I still have this issue

Yeah, the one and only PC on which I ever used Vista was a comically under powered laptop that my Mum bought. If it was running XP it would have been solid, but alas, it had 512mb RAM and Vista was thiiiirsty.

Ah, but Linux is faultless, so no such thread could ever happen.