Windows 11 is failing as an operating system

By Autobot 4 Oct 2026 in cm0002 Original post by cm0002@europe.pub 3 Oct 2026 on linux@programming.dev

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00:00 Intro

00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar

02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now

05:20 What's the job of an OS?

06:51 Updates break systems. Often.

10:53 You have to adapt to it

15:14 It's highly intrusive

17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good

20:19 Windows fails at being an OS

21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect

27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

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3 comments

nymnympseudonym4

Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows because we had the Internet and live software updates? I remember!
- OwOarchist0
  
  Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows
  
  Actually, no.
  
  That was one Microsoft employee, speculating on his own during a press interview. It was never the official position of the company.
  
  (Plenty of legit reasons to hate on Microslop. No need to bring up debunked shit.)
Die4Ever1

And yet it's at 71.34% on the Steam survey :(

We need OEMs to push Linux more, where are all the Steam Machine copycats?