“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
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
If they plow half their profits into the Linux foundation and a new android/steam/open source OS AI free ecosystem they could destroy 🍏 and Microsoft.
I was so excited about that, because running some Android apps natively on my Desktop PC would’ve been amazing. But it never really worked well, installing the PlayStore was not officially supported (and painful) and then it got canned.
The only “good” thing that improved with Windows 11 was WSL, and as soon as I found an employer that allowed me to use a native Linux machine I ran away from the Windows dumpsterfire as fast as I could.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am also interested in this answer.
Sounds more like a Desktop environment question than a distro one to me.
Regarding the fingerprint scanner, as long as it’s supported by the kernel it’ll work - at least via the CLI. To have it easily usable for login and whatnot, I’d prefer a proper integration of touchscreen login into the DE, which by now at least Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon support.
For the usability with touch, for what I know at least: Gnome and KDE should be pretty usable. Cinnamon does not do so well (at least the last time I checked; e.g. scrolling the start menu by touch does not work as expected) For other DEs I don’t know, they all should recognize the touch, albeit only treat it as if it were a mouse click. The only DE that ships a proper “touch mode” that I know of is KDE, but Gnome (due to its design nature) holds up pretty well using touch also.
A distro that unites that all well and provides a solid allround package with little manual configuration needed has been Fedora in my experience, however I’m very confident that more or less all other distros (Debian, Arch, Suse,…) are shipped or can be customized to make it properly usable for your use case
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.
I wouldn’t know. I use Bazzite
Its OK, just have AI fix the problem by first looking online for an AI who had the same problem and figured out some slop that hgrsa kjfsb the whole thing by ooh up! Dhdgbjtcdr hgdrbbkk!
