Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/

[u/eppic123]

Since October, there hasn't been a monthly update without at least one severe bug.

[u/Crunchykroket → u/eppic123]

We're witnessing the increased productivity of developers thanks to AI.

[u/Thadrea → u/Crunchykroket]

AI allows the devs to deploy more bugs faster. It is the Microslop way.

[u/themastermatt → u/Thadrea]

Its also becoming the global way. If i have one more dev open a ticket with a copy/paste from claude telling my cloud engineers how to do their jobs - im gonna have an episode. No Sirinivas, IDC what the AI says, your webapp will be going behind a WAF and it cant use 10.0.0.0/8 if you want it to nicely talk to the DB server that ChatGPT doesnt understand has only a private endpoint. No we dont need to have a meeting about it.

[u/Thadrea → u/themastermatt]

We had a guy that absolutely choked when he realized that his Copilot-suggested solution to a not-really-a-problem wasn't going to work because, no, we're not giving a public chatbot access to some highly sensitive data to solve an issue that summarizes to "you lied on your resume about your SQL background and somehow got through the technical assessment."

[u/themastermatt → u/Thadrea]

OMFG, the AI in interviews. I had one Friday for a "Senior MLops Engineer" (why are they all "Senior"?) and i could see the chatbot reflection in his glasses as well as his eye pattern clearly going to the window while he stalled for the thing to process. So youre telling me that a MLops engineer knows the command to promote a Windows Server to a domain controller, can summarize what BGP is and tell me the difference between iBGP and eBGP, and knows that NTFS permissions are applied from the most restrictive evaluation in addition to all the ML/AI stuff? Maybe, but not my lived experience.

[u/Thadrea → u/themastermatt]

If we see evidence the person is using an LLM during the interview they're instantly "out".

I would rather a candidate be wrong and able/willing to learn than confidently restate whatever answer was given to them by a chatbot.

[u/kescusay → u/Thadrea]

Same. I interview people regularly, and if I hear a keyboard a-clackin' in response to a simple question, that tells me this is probably not someone I want on my team. Just be honest when you don't know, because nobody knows everything. Bonus points for expressing an interest in learning.

[u/Thefrayedends → u/kescusay]

I'm just multi-tasking, I swear!!! Pauses while frantically reading side monitor before answering every question

[u/s1ravarice → u/Thefrayedends]

Just put the meeting window on the side monitor but stare at your main as if you’re looking at them.

[u/Unlimited_Bacon → u/kescusay]

"I don't know the answer to that, but this is how I would find the answer..."
Some of the best interviewing advice I've received.

[u/mccedian → u/Unlimited_Bacon]

I had interviews this week, and was very clear when they asked a question about servers, that I have zero server experience. Our organization has a team, and that is there whole job and they are the only ones that touch it. So when I suspect there is a server issue, I just run through my checklist of things that it could possibly be, that isn’t server related. If I’ve exhausted those I send a ticket their way and let them play with it. When asked if I was willing to learn I said most definitely. Easily, I think this was the thing that put me over the top for them. Not necessarily the experience I do have, but knowing where my knowledge stops, and willing to expand that.

[u/Wild_Marker → u/Thadrea]

On the other hand, I would like recruiters to stop using LLMs as well.

God, AI interviews are such dehumanizing bullshit. I didn't think job seeking could get worse, until I met them.

[u/cailenletigre → u/Thadrea]

When you say instantly “out”, do you mean you end the interview right then abruptly or do you still professionally continue the interview and then provide the feedback afterward to the hiring manager/recruiter that you believed that were using assistance?

[u/Thadrea → u/cailenletigre]

I would professionally continue the interview to the end.

Sometimes, I am the hiring manager, but when I am not, I am on the hiring committee and will raise the observation that they appeared to be using an LLM during the conversation when we meet to discuss our observations. Usually, others observed the same thing, corroborating it.

Every single time someone appeared to be using LLM assistance during one or more of their interviews, they got a "no" vote from everyone on the hiring committee call.

It's also fairly easy to spot when you had an LLM do the take-home technical assessment... While "AI detectors" are unreliable, we can run the assessment through the common LLMs too... And if we see you answering conceptual questions using the same language as the LLM responses, in the same order... that is a massive red flag.

[u/Aldiirk → u/Thadrea]

I would professionally continue the interview to the end.

I try to terminate the interview gracefully. (I ask a few more generally-relevant questions, then close with the "do you have any questions for us?" question.) After the interview, I put them down as a "hell no and blacklist". Usually, my fellow interviewers are in full agreement.

This is also why I always push for in-person interviews, and almost always rate in-person interviewees higher than remote interviewees, unless the remote candidate is insanely good. Ironically, this is also how I got hired at my current employer. I was the only person who made the effort to put on a pantsuit and drive out to their site.

I work in aerospace engineering, though, so the consequences of AI slopping your code or models can be more dire than just "shit code / models".

[u/AngryAudacity → u/themastermatt]

I'm almost at the point of asking candidates to sit back in their chair and folder their arms during Zoom interviews. The AI slop responses are not only obvious, they are insulting behavior for a job interview.

[u/themastermatt → u/AngryAudacity]

I was JUST thinking the same! "Thanks for taking some time today candidate! We like to do what we call watercooler interviews. That means we all back up from our cameras so that it feels more like we are standing around having a chat."

[u/civildisobedient → u/themastermatt]

I suspect that some cheaters are getting help. On their end it's a split-screen with the interviewer in one window and someone typing questions into Gemini in another. That person is listening in, maybe even remote so you wouldn't hear typing. The only way you can be completely sure is to have people physically present like in Ye Olden Times.

[u/StormOfSpears → u/themastermatt]

I am seeing interviewers use a method where they will ask one or two complex questions and if they suspect the interviewee is using AI, they will simply ask the interviewee to close their eyes, and then ask them some simple questions. If they stumble, interview is over.

[u/Abedeus → u/themastermatt]

(why are they all "Senior"?)

Same reason why every "vibe coding" idiot is now a CEO, and why they all pretend to be "artists" when prompting shitty slop.

They're jealous of people with skills and experience and knowledge so they're doing everything they can to convince others and themselves as well that they're just as good as the real deal.

[u/themastermatt → u/Abedeus]

This is how my company is being ran today. I have been in meetings with senior leadership where they share the CoPilot screen and prompt it through whatever the topic is. They often deliver their "decisions" with "we ran it through AI and...".

[u/Jaccount → u/themastermatt]

I miss IBM's old hard and fast rule: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision".

[u/fluffh34d420 → u/themastermatt]

I work helpdesk and believe me im so sick of getting users posting what gpt told them I need to do.

The agents dont have all the information, nor do they understand our architecture.

Sigh.

[u/Crashman09 → u/fluffh34d420]

"fine. Get gpt to fix it for you!"

[u/tudorapo → u/Crashman09]

Relevant XKCD

[u/Caleb-Blucifer → u/themastermatt]

the Indian team that keeps adding onto my code keeps making the sloppiest design I’ve ever seen. Just talking running methods 10 times intentionally to get a behavior to work because they didn’t read the documentation and didn’t listen. They’re injecting the entire service layer into a rendering component to get things to work for the same reasons.

They added this snippet of logic that made the whole app slow to a crawl because now thousands of these custom field models are making api requests to validate simple things because they don’t know wtf they’re doing. But my company insists we “need them”. They’re just making my beautiful code design into a total trash heap and half the unit tests are bloody x===x tests that add nothing but extra work everytime we refactor things.

I need to find time to clean it all up and put them through a whole ass workshop because they refuse to look at the 10 page documentation on how to use the damned framework. I’m pretty convinced they’re using AI to do this shit for them and it sure as hell doesn’t understand any of these things

[u/themastermatt → u/Caleb-Blucifer]

From the Ops side of the house, this is why my Azure bill crossed $500K/mo this year. I dont -think- you need a 6 node cluster of 64 Core 384GB Nvidia GPU VMs to do whatever it is your job is doing for 8 hours 3 times a day - but there might be some opportunity to optimize something.

[u/BasvanS → u/themastermatt]

That might be true, but think of all the money you’re saving on local devs!

[u/jollyreaper2112 → u/themastermatt]

I'm hearing reports that adding ai bullshit to processes that were done by normal deterministic apps prior is bloating compute cost. Companies are now finding taking stuff in house ie cheaper.

[u/Adept_Avocado_4903 → u/Caleb-Blucifer]

That's just what cheap Indian developers are like. It was the same before AI.

[u/TwiceInEveryMoment → u/themastermatt]

I had a pull request the other week where a junior dev had used Copilot to attempt to reinvent our entire access control system to fix one single user group not seeing a single link. It would’ve broken tons of other things.

[u/King_Chochacho → u/themastermatt]

My boss has started using it in meetings because god forbid you actually trust the engineers you hired.

"AI says we can do ______"

Well the vendor's documentation says we can't, but sure I'll just bang my head against the wall for a few hours if that's what you want to pay me to do. Or maybe you and Gemeni can just run the whole environment yourself because nobody else was clever enough to Google the problem we're having.

She's so completely out of touch that she doesn't understand how demoralizing it is.

[u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD → u/themastermatt]

Fucking Srinivas

[u/themastermatt → u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD]

Look, hes a SENIOR dev. And he lives in an apartment in Illinois with 1,600 other Sr. SQL ML/AI DataWareLakeHouse DevOps engineers!

[u/DaggumTarHeels → u/themastermatt]

“I have a doubt, shall we connect?”

[u/Jaccount → u/themastermatt]

Maybe just do the needful?

[u/DookieShoez → u/Thadrea]

“Hey stop calling us that, it isn’t fair! 😭”

(Continues to churn out slop)

[u/Lessiarty → u/Thadrea]

Firefighters taking up arson to drive demand.

[u/LarxII → u/Crunchykroket]

But in the way how METH makes you "more productive" but in doing shit that makes Zero sense.

[u/Momik → u/LarxII]

That’s such a good analogy. Like how the Blitzkrieg seemed invincible in Europe until meth-addled officers had to make sense of supply line logistics on the fly.

[u/URfwend → u/LarxII]

Meth makes you more productive at taking things apart that weren't broken and not knowing how to put them back together. "What's this screw for? Eh not important...." - Microsoft

[u/nath1234 → u/Crunchykroket]

Fast, cheap or good.

AI is proving it is maybe one of those.

[u/7h4tguy → u/Crunchykroket]

Just get another AI to review the code

[u/ScrungulusBungulus → u/Crunchykroket]

Let's not ignore the thousands of senior devs that Microsoft has laid off in 2025, many of them from the Windows division in the US. Only to then expand the workforce in India, effectively replacing senior Microsoft devs in the US with new hires in India using Copilot to code Windows updates.

AI can never replace institutional knowledge and years of experience with some old proprietary code base.

[u/PoL0 → u/eppic123]

it's not a severe bug, it's a severe feature

[u/fullywokevoiddemon → u/eppic123]

Some update around January fucked my work laptop so much it froze after 5 minutes of use. Task manager not responding. File explorer blank. Very fun.

Back on win 10. Win 11 is NOT ready for office use.

[u/Mysterious_Donut_702 → u/fullywokevoiddemon]

Good thing Windows 10 isn't even officially supported after October 2025.

Microsoft created a security nightmare AND an unstable mess at the same time.

[u/fullywokevoiddemon → u/Mysterious_Donut_702]

We are in Europe so we benefit from updates until late 2026 I think? Bur yeah, stupid to axe one of the most used operating systems in a lot of industries (yes yes I know about Linux, but saying you use Linux is like saying you eat food. There's many distros out there).

[u/Wild_Marker → u/fullywokevoiddemon]

stupid to axe

On the other hand, we can be greatful they axed W10 support before going all in on AI development. At least W10 lives on un-tarnished.

[u/indifferentcabbage → u/eppic123]

Lmao they mostly replaced the QA with Dev on steroids(AI)

[u/DJ_TKS → u/eppic123]

Yup.

In November 2025, Microsoft announced that their windows 11 engineering team would be led by AI, from now on. Humans would only oversee it.

Furthermore, the majority of updates are now coded by AI and pushed by AI. Their “agent factory “ would now decide which devices are ready for the update when they are ready rolled out.

The reality is is that corporate America most likely laid off way too many engineers who are overseeing these systems, and they are pushing windows updates far too frequently compared to past history. This will only continue. I would advise people not to update windows automatically going forward.

[u/Thefrayedends → u/DJ_TKS]

This can't be for real, I'm going to need to see some sourcing on that, my google searches just lead back to your comment.

[u/EmergencyComplaints → u/DJ_TKS]

I would advise people not to update windows automatically going forward.

I didn't realize that was an option anymore. I haven't had much control over when my computer wants to update windows since I was on Win 7.

[u/mxzf → u/EmergencyComplaints]

AFAIK it's doable, but doing it via group policy is the main way I know of to do it (as-of Win10 at least). There are enough big managed orgs that want control over their machines' update cycles that I can see that sticking around for a while at least.

[u/StarGazer_SpaceLove → u/eppic123]

Good thing they disabled every other OS of theirs basically bricking our computers and forced us all on to this one.

[u/ToddHowardTouchedMe → u/StarGazer_SpaceLove]

wdym im still on windows 10

[u/TheRealAfinda → u/eppic123]

MicroSlop, worse code but more promises and some tears when users call it out for the shit it is.

[u/DrFarts_dds]

While drive C is not something you want to open every day,

Excuse me?

[u/Impressive_Plant3446 → u/DrFarts_dds]

Ai article clickbaiting the Windows 11 hate. The real problem is in Samsung Share software.

Not even windows fault here. This is just rage bait.

[u/No-Photograph-5058 → u/Impressive_Plant3446]

Check out the authors Twitter, they're just a die hard Apple shill/Windows hater

[u/Impressive_Plant3446 → u/No-Photograph-5058]

I'm not a fan of Windows 11 either and I've never used apple. I just hate click bait.

[u/idbar → u/DrFarts_dds]

Maybe the writer thinks "open" involves a screwdriver?

[u/real_Goblin3 → u/DrFarts_dds]

Yeah I was confused reading that too wtf

[u/EnthusiasmOnly22 → u/real_Goblin3]

AI article, my god is the internet dead

[u/OurSeepyD → u/EnthusiasmOnly22]

I highly doubt this. Almost every LLM knows how important the C drive is, it's more likely this was written by a tech-illiterate human, maybe augmented by AI.

[u/Bynnh0j → u/DrFarts_dds]

They want you to store all your personal files and details in the cloud instead of your local drives.

[u/withwhichwhat]

"Although the bug sounds absolutely terrifying, the good news is that not every Windows 11 system is affected. Microsoft says that the bug is "predominantly observed" on Samsung laptops, particularly on the Samsung Galaxy Book4 and other models in countries like Brazil, Portugal, Korea, and India. It is possible that the Samsung Share application could be the reason, but Microsoft is not ready to share exact details. Microsoft is investigating the problem, so expect to hear from them soon."

[u/Next-Sentence-8426 → u/withwhichwhat]

Insane that comments by people who actually read this poorly written article are so down below in this post lol

[u/loosebolts → u/[deleted]]

Samsung Share software.

[u/BryAlrighty → u/[deleted]]

Unlikely. It seems to have more to do with the app "Samsung Share".

[u/Relevant-Idea2298 → u/withwhichwhat]

I mean, I get the unpopularity of Microsoft and they’ve done nothing to help themselves out with that lately, but in fairness to their devs, Windows runs on an absolutely insane gamut of different hardware around the world with a million varieties of shitty software on top.

The strict hardware requirements for 11 were clearly at least partially an effort to reign in the hardware environment, which many other companies have done as well, Apple being a great example.

This is /r/technology though so only reactionary hot takes are allowed.

[u/shytster → u/withwhichwhat]

"Although the bug sounds absolutely terrifying, the good news is that not every Windows 11 system is affected.

Such bizarre phrasing. "Although dying sounds scary, the good news is you might be in the lucky half."

[u/N30nNarwha1 → u/shytster]

The article is terribe. This is what microsoft actually said:

Microsoft has received reports of an issue in which some Samsung device models lose access to the C: drive after installing the February 2026 security update (KB5077181) and subsequent updates.

[u/Marginallyhuman]

I remember when their OSs got super stable toward the end of their cycle. Windows 11 seems to have been birthed as garbage and decided to stay that way.

[u/demonfoo → u/Marginallyhuman]

That's what happens when your focus is jamming "AI" into everything instead of making the OS good.

[u/Thadrea → u/demonfoo]

Just one more data center bro. Just one more data center and we'll fix it

[u/demonfoo → u/Thadrea]

One more datacenter and another $100bn, somehow it'll be enough!

[u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS → u/demonfoo]

We promise!

~Windows execs

[u/LivingVerinarian96 → u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS]

‚But pls don‘t call us MicroSlop!‘

~The same execs.

[u/FlyYouFoolyCooly → u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS]

"Just trust me, Bro" seems to be the most convincing argument in tech right now because all of AI seems to be balancing on that house of cards.

[u/AaronfromKY → u/demonfoo]

And insisting on cloud storage for everything. I feel like even when I turn it off, One Drive insists on moving things to the cloud and deleting them off my PC.

[u/JohnBrownOH → u/AaronfromKY]

OneDrive is an abomination, as is SharePoint.

[u/justacaucasian → u/JohnBrownOH]

I hate working in SharePoint online environments dear god

[u/Thefrayedends → u/JohnBrownOH]

I hate it. I never set it up, I never used it, but yet somehow my file system is tied to it and I can't get rid of it. FFS. Probably a project day there at some point to finally get rid of it, but I'm thinking of finally moving to linux in the fall, especially as I've been dabbling with local model use and it is allegedly a much better environment for that use case. At least going to set up a side load.

[u/el_smurfo → u/JohnBrownOH]

Editing documents directly in SharePoint is a recipe for fucking it up. Even simple things like fonts that don't exist in SharePoint cause the actual document to look bad when opened directly in the app.

[u/Makenshine → u/AaronfromKY]

Fuck.... I hate this so much. I keep unintsalling/disabling all this cloud garbage and every update undoes all the settings and reinstalls everything.

Stop fucking with my preferences when you update!

[u/Synectics → u/AaronfromKY]

I got a new PC. Did not think anything of OneDrive. I took my phone, connected it, and copied every picture/video off of it into my Documents folder. 

I finally have a new PC. It will last the next 10 years at least. So I deleted all of those old pics off my phone to clear up space. 

Then, OneDrive kept screaming at me. "YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE SPACE, STOP IT!" ...fine. I am sick of this popup. I do not need you to back up every pic I have, and now you will not even let me use OneNote (which I use on my phone and PC for D&D sessions until I clear some space).

I went onto the website of OneDrive, and started deleting entire swaths of pics from the website. Just stop giving me those big red X icons next to all my pics, and let me access those 2kb documents I had been using for D&D for years across both my phone and old PC.

...little did I know, the website then takes all those files I moved from my phone to my PC, and takes the liberty of deleting them off of my PC. Straight out of the Documents folder. Gone were years of pictures.

Turns out, "Documents" and "C:\Users\My Name\My Documents" is a different folder from the one automatically pinned on every Explorer windows. 

I have since take steps to remove every single bit of OneDrive I can from my new PC. But boy, that was a wake-up call.

[u/Mengs87 → u/AaronfromKY]

I kept getting incessant script errors on youtube and it was driving me mad. Every 3 minutes an annoying window would pop up. I was thinking it was browser related but nothing I did seemed to work. I was seriously thinking of re-installing Windows 11.

It turns out it was MS Onedrive. I uninstalled it and no more script errors. How on earth it was interfering with Youtube and my browser, I have no idea.

[u/The_Wkwied → u/demonfoo]

No, Win11 wasn't ruined by AI. The AI came later

11 is the prime example of corporate enshittification. Under the hood, windows 11 is windows 10. It is literally just 10 with an additional (slower) UI, cortana, and now copilot baked in. Some extra changes, yes, but it is closer to windows 10 than it isn't.

Win11 was ruined by the need to collect so much user info, that the OS is a data collection software suite more than it is an operating system.

If you start to hack away at the garbage adons, you end up with a more functional, but still scarred OS.

On the other hand, windows 10, at least the de-crappified versions, are reasonably seasoned and reliable. As long as they are kept secure, ofc

[u/Dire-Dog → u/The_Wkwied]

That’s why I refused to switch to 11 and went to Linux instead.

[u/Academic_Carrot_4533 → u/Dire-Dog]

I’m coming close to building a whole separate machine for Linux in spite of RAM prices and relegating my current Windows machine to gaming only. Yeah there’s vm/dual boot but at this point Windows and the anti cheats are potentially akin to rootkits if they aren’t actually classifiable as rootkits already. Give me back 2005 where this shit was easily manageable.

[u/dRaidon → u/Academic_Carrot_4533]

Unless you play certain online games, gaming on linux is just fine.

[u/AchillesShort → u/The_Wkwied]

True lol, windows 10.was dog shit when it released.

Microsoft is currently on prime idgaf mode because of how superiorly placed they are in the ecosystem. Even if every one switched to Linux, businesses fucking live off of the Microsoft ecosystem and switching would be costly and take forever. They're kings of the castle and can keep putting out dog shit and they'll hardly lose $$.

Hopefully this AI bubble bursts and the stupid Billions of "all-in" investment crashes and burns to make them realize they can't just keep releasing BS bloated software but until then, Windows 12 will be the same buggy crap that's been around since fucking Vista.

Sucks too because they make some good hardware, I love the build of the surface and ergonomics of the Xbox controller are top tier

[u/WorkingTheMadses → u/demonfoo]

To be fair, Windows 11 came out in 2021, long before LLMs, Generative AI as we know it today and "agentic AI" was really a thing.

Windows 11 came out troubled because of Microsoft's shift towards more invasive data harvesting, a confusing design language that had one foot in Windows 7 land and one in Windows 10, while claiming always online was absolutely required to use the OS.

AI is so far down the list.

[u/Pyros → u/WorkingTheMadses]

AI is so far down the list.

Luckily they're working hard to make sure it catches up to the top of the list asap.

[u/yoortyyo → u/demonfoo]

Subscription services by any means.

[u/tipsyhitman → u/demonfoo]

Garbage in, garbage out

[u/Mccobsta → u/demonfoo]

Can't wait for the day when llms are a thing of the past and software becomes stable again

[u/eppic123 → u/Marginallyhuman]

It's the first Windows I remember that actually got worse throughout its lifecycle and I've been using Windows since 3.1.

[u/exipheas → u/eppic123]

Windows ME would be the only other candidate for an OS that only got worse with updates.

[u/GlumAd2424 → u/exipheas]

Good old ME, what a glorious train wreck that was

[u/toddestan → u/exipheas]

Microsoft patched Windows ME a few times. It didn't help much, but at least it didn't seem to make it any worse.

Windows 7 and 8.1 might count if you consider the telemetry crap they patched in towards the end. Not to mention the patches that only existed to annoy people into upgrading to Windows 10.

[u/Sl4sh4ndD4sh → u/Marginallyhuman]

They are trying very hard to earn their Microslop title.

[u/Individual-Donkey-92 → u/Sl4sh4ndD4sh]

please rafrain from using the word "Microslop", they asked people to not use that word

[u/7h4tguy → u/Marginallyhuman]

I wonder what happens when you fire all the testers and then pretend the devs can be replaced by AI

[u/AutoX_Advice → u/7h4tguy]

The testers are us now and have been for a while.

[u/Harmless_Drone → u/Marginallyhuman]

Its vibe coded shit jammed with spyware and seems to be nothing but a storefront for AI plugins you didn't want or ask for and cloud storage solutions you don't want or need.

Frankly I regret upgrading from 10.

[u/Bathhouse-Barry → u/Marginallyhuman]

I was sure they said windows 10 was the “last” windows. They were going to just stay on that platform and update it forever moving forward. Then I heard 11 was the last. Now they have 12.

Each iteration getting shitter and shitter.

[u/piss_artist → u/Bathhouse-Barry]

You can pretty much dismiss any promises companies make about anything, especially software companies, and especially especially gaming companies.

[u/BillWilberforce → u/Marginallyhuman]

Because Microsoft laid off all of their QA and QC staff, around the introduction of Windows 10. Thinking that the Windows Insiders could do all of that work for free and then MS ignored them.

[u/MrPuddington2 → u/BillWilberforce]

What a surprise. QA is more than finding bugs, it means writing good high quality bug reports. The community does not do that for free.

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y → u/Marginallyhuman]

Also would be nice if they didn't force updates. At this point once a machine is stable I just want it to keep working. Seems like there's more risk from updating borking the machine than Malware.

At least let the user have full control over when updates, and especially reboots, are done.

[u/Nick08f1 → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Not being able to turn off defender, and edge being the core search for things locally is ridiculous.

[u/CttCJim → u/Nick08f1]

There is a fix for that, sort of. There's a recent ThioJoe video where he shows how to change your install region (not your location, that's different) to Ireland so you get the EU protections, and you can uninstall Edge after that if you want. You can change a LOT of things you can't in the North America region.

I use Search Everything for my local searching, it's much better than Windows search

[u/ketosoy]

Something about this article makes me doubt the quality of reporting and if a human who understands tech even remotely proofread it:

 While drive C is not something you want to open every day

[u/tifosiv122 → u/ketosoy]

The C drive is more of a weekend thing!

[u/NoConfusion9490 → u/tifosiv122]

Sometimes we'll mount that C Friday night after watching a movie.

[u/Munster-Munch → u/NoConfusion9490]

Netflix & C

[u/PJMFett → u/ketosoy]

article wrote by ai too

[u/hatemakingnames1 → u/PJMFett]

To be fair, human writers can also be idiots

[u/spacemoses → u/hatemakingnames1]

I feel like AI would even be smart enough not to write that.

[u/Ouaouaron → u/spacemoses]

AI is not smart, it's just random. There isn't some consistent level of problem difficulty that it is incapable of doing correctly, 5% of things it says are just going to be wrong. It could be in the middle of a flawless explanation of relativistic time dilation, and then say that Einstein was born in the US.

[u/Cobyachi → u/PJMFett]

I doubt AI would write that, let alone call it “drive c”

[u/Cornflakes_91 → u/ketosoy]

loool

good luck not using your C drive

[u/Low-Mistake-515 → u/ketosoy]

You should always open OneDrive instead of C:\, it's much safer! /s

[u/BarnabasShrexx → u/ketosoy]

A shitty article written by ai about shitty ai that one of the wealthiest companies on the planet just cant not use because they were dumb enough to invest.

[u/frenchtoaster → u/ketosoy]

Look at fancy pants over here with a hard drive, us normal people only have floppy disk drives.

[u/4kVHS → u/frenchtoaster]

I only have an A:\ and B:\ drive, you must have really fancy setup if you also have C:\ /s

[u/StandingBehindMyNose → u/ketosoy]

Probably written by a gen z who has more experience using an iPad than an actual computer

[u/canadug → u/ketosoy]

I came here looking for this comment. Fuckin' AI.

[u/talkyape]

Everyday I inch closer and closer to revisiting my youth and installing Linux -_-

[u/deprecatedcoder → u/talkyape]

The hesitation you feel due to past trauma will feel wildly misplaced once you do

... until you have audio issues. 🤷‍♂️

[u/KaiBishop → u/deprecatedcoder]

Yet to face audio issues on Linux that weren't solved by just restarting my laptop tbh

[u/homtanksreddit → u/KaiBishop]

You don’t need to restart laptop, just kill pulse audio daemon. In almost all cases it’ll respawn and fix the issue. 

[u/ClassicPlankton → u/KaiBishop]

Spoken like someone that doesn't need to do work on their computer. It's 2026, I shouldn't need to restart my computer to fix the stupid dock, screen, and/or audio issues that constantly happen on my Linux laptop, yet here we are. 

Edit: Since some people must know what distro I'm using as a pass to even talk about Linux, here is a list of distros I've used in my life, in no particular order:

Redhat, Debian, Slackware, Storm Linux 2000, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, Rocky, CentOS, Omarchy, Arch, Corel, Progeny, SuSE (But not openSUSE I don't think), Knoppix

and of course FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

[u/Hour-Cardiologist393 → u/ClassicPlankton]

I shouldn't have to reboot Windows 11 because fucking copy and paste stopped working either. Or because it stopped recognizing that new USB devices were plugged in. Or because drag and drop isn't working again. 

I shouldn't have to resize a bunch of windows and move them back to the monitor they were on before I locked my computer every time I unlock it.

Explorer shouldn't crash just because I had a couple windows open that have a lot of files in them. It also shouldn't just crash randomly, for that matter.

I shouldn't have to change my audio settings in every damn app whenever I join a meeting because Windows decided to switch to an audio interface that I explicitly disabled in Sound Settings. Again.

But here we are.

[u/rmwe2 → u/ClassicPlankton]

What are you talking about? What distro do you have installed? Even if you are having these problems, how do they possibly hinder you more than losing access to your C drive??

[u/ostekages → u/talkyape]

I just took the plunge recently with an Arch based - have done so in the past like you, but felt it was maybe a bit immature for my needs.

But holy, has it progressed. Vulkan is a game-changer (literally). No more fapping about with Lutris scripts and Faugus is the new Lutris.

Definitely worth revisiting. Haven't had a reason to dual boot into my windows for since months when I set it up

[u/Cersad → u/ostekages]

fapping about

Not to be all English police but I think the phrase you wanted was "faffing about" which doesn't sound like you got nearly as sticky

[u/ostekages → u/Cersad]

Haha, thanks for the correction. I stand by my comment

[u/TheTexasJack → u/talkyape]

You should.  Mint is so clean you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

[u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 → u/TheTexasJack]

Unless you have an Optimus laptop you are golden, it's all Nvidia falt though.

Obligatory, fuck you Nvida.

[u/HauntingObligation → u/talkyape]

I went back "to my youth" last week. It definitely took some tinkering to get everything working again, but it's a change I'm already glad I made. 

[u/Thadrea → u/talkyape]

Do it. You probably won't regret it.

[u/frid44y → u/Thadrea]

Probably! I never used it before. Can you tell me what probably entails here? I'm tired of windows

[u/TheRetenor → u/frid44y]

Honestly, just get a USB stick, make a Linux Mint drive out of it, live boot it with persistence and see for yourself. There's not a lot and at the same time tons of things that are different but don't really matter at the end of the day.

Let me know if you need instructions but a USB 3.0 drive, Rufus and googling Linux Mint will get you quite a good chunk of the way forward.

[u/Fir3line → u/frid44y]

Deppends on what you do with the PC. Lets be fucking honest here, its not just switching and getting used to it. You might have devices that require certain programs to use all functions and a linux option is not available, or buttons that wont work(like my DAC) for example. Or my mouse dpi settiings, not to mention some games simply not working in linux and requiring a dual boot.

Try...like i try nearly every year and end up switching back because there is stuff i need that is not doable outside windows

[u/Tall_computer → u/talkyape]

You'll be surprised at how easy it is now

[u/milkkore]

FWIW the bug apparently affects a specific Samsung laptop in a few specific countries (Brazil, Portugal, Korea, India), the headline makes it sound more widespread than it is.

[u/__________________99 → u/milkkore]

Too late. Everyone here already jumped onto the "WINDOWS BAD, MMMMKAY?" train.

I'm not the biggest fan of Microsoft either. But goddamn people, read the article ffs.

[u/sarge21 → u/__________________99]

People in /r/technology have very little technology literacy. It's very ironic and amusing.

[u/quickshade → u/milkkore]

Thank you, I read the article only to come here and see dozen of comments making it out like this is a huge widespread problem, also it may not even be a Windows bug, it could be related to Samsung software.

[u/im_eddie_snowden]

Who TF wrote this garbage article ?

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day, the problem goes a bit deeper than just opening File Explorer"

Literally everything is on drive C for most users.

[u/loosebolts]

Before we just all start down this “major bug” and “typical Microsoft” bullshit, I have pulled the following from the article.

Samsung laptops, particularly on the Samsung Galaxy Book4 and other models in countries like Brazil, Portugal, Korea, and India. It is possible that the Samsung Share application could be the reason

Let’s not fall for typical clickbait; please.

[u/badadviceforyou244 → u/loosebolts]

They all fell for it.

[u/Sporken4]

Steam Machine can’t come soon enough. I have zero desire to use my Windows PC any more for these kind of reasons.

Edit: Thanks for everyone’s recommendations. Do any of these support Discord?

[u/impact_ftw → u/Sporken4]

You can always try something like Fedora or Bazzite. Fedora is a more rounded system, while Bazzite focuses on Gaming.

[u/frakkintoaster → u/Sporken4]

You can probably just install SteamOS on it now 

[u/AnonomousWolf → u/frakkintoaster]

Bazzite is basically SteamOS for desktop.

You can start there if you like

[u/alBashir → u/frakkintoaster]

I switched over to CachyOS. Another Arch based Linux distro. Top 3 most popular Linux OS on Steam are currently in order, SteamOS, Arch Linux, CachyOS.

[u/WildCard65 → u/frakkintoaster]

Current SteamOS is designed exclusively for the SteamDeck's hardware.

The currently available version of SteamOS available to download is extremely outdated and is Debian based instead of Arch based.

[u/Kelmurdoch → u/WildCard65]

And until Linux stops speaking in code like this, it will be inaccessible to non grognards like myself.

[u/PM_YOUR_B_CUPS → u/Sporken4]

Nobara is a version of linux that is as easy to install as windows, runs like windows, meant for gaming, and is functionally the same as the steamdeck.

For anyone that doesn't know, Steamdecks have a "desktop mode" that looks and works like windows for standard use.

Note to fellow linux-users: just use the terms people are familiar with, even if they're technically wrong.

[u/storm_the_castle]

Microslop vibe coding strikes again

[u/hizashiYEAHmada → u/storm_the_castle]

Every time I see Windows 11 mentioned in news, I thank my past self for choosing to remain on Windows 10

[u/BurmecianDancer → u/hizashiYEAHmada]

It blows my mind that 72% of Windows users are on Win11 now. I realize it's been out for 4.5 years now, but it's so bad compared to 10 that I just can't imagine switching to it until I'm forced to.

[u/echolog → u/BurmecianDancer]

It's because they were SO AGGRESSIVE in pushing people to upgrade. The fact that they wouldn't shut up about it + the fact that they were so shutting down Win 10 support is what convinced me NOT to upgrade.

Shoutout to r/WindowsLTSC for anyone interested in staying on Windows 10 (with security updates for 6 more years!!!)

[u/SimiKusoni → u/[deleted]]

If only there were some sort of change that might explain this suddenly accelerating trend...

If I remember correctly a while back they also sacked a large swathe of their QA and test teams too which is very likely exacerbating matters.

[u/directorguy → u/SimiKusoni]

My bosses think I'm crazy when I say that the AI they FORCE me to use causes twice the work. EVERYTHING it does has little errors and omissions. After fighting with the thing to get a result that even resembles what I need, I have to go back and check it line by line.

I don't think Microsoft is fixing or checking their AI slop line by line.

[u/SimiKusoni → u/directorguy]

I've been using Opus tbh and it's much better than other stuff I've tried but you do still have to check everything. Sometimes it makes silly mistakes and they snowball. I have also been limiting it to the vs code extension, and I'll review all commands before they run and go through the edits afterwards etc.

As you have highlighted not sure if it actually improves productivity once you account for all that.

One of my staff has also... experimented... with some unholy multi-agent setup and the output can only be described as the worst trash I have ever had the displeasure of reading through in my life.

[u/Knit_Game_and_Lift → u/SimiKusoni]

It goes way back. 2012 was when they merged SDET and SDE organizations and basically destroyed the testing infrastructure because us former SDETs were suddenly being assigned tons of features work while testing "can be handled by the devs while they work" and the quality drop off was immediate and huge across windows, office, SharePoint, etc.

[u/amontpetit → u/[deleted]]

If C:/ is inaccessible I can’t boot my PC to get onto the cloud though…

[u/NoPatience7817 → u/amontpetit]

“C:\” Syntax matters. No wonder it won’t boot.

[u/goldencrisp → u/[deleted]]

Nadella has been the worst thing to ever happen to Microsoft. Dude has no control or desire to put out quality products.

[u/jomasthrones]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day"

WTF is this article? Was it vibe coded like the update?

[u/Astramancer_ → u/jomasthrones]

I went to the article to see if that means couldn’t access file explorer because that would make the sentence make sense. Nope, it goes on to elaborate it means accessing files and running programs too. WTF?

[u/Slightly_Zen]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day" I wonder which genius wrote this article.

[u/SlappyPappyAmerica]

You guys remember when we were all excited about SSD’s and how computers would never be slow again because paging would be nearly as fast as working in memory? That lasted about 2 years because MS and other software developers saw it as an opportunity to completely ignore optimizing anything. They literally out-bloated the speed of light. Ridiculous incompetence and greed from the top-down and Microsoft is the worst offender.

[u/OdoBenSisko]

Maybe if they rename it Copilot OS?

[u/Thadrea → u/OdoBenSisko]

Don't give them any AIdeas.

[u/Jonnyflash80]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day,..."

What?

What idiot wrote this?

[u/sanraith]

For the 3 people here that are interested in more than just clickbait,
this is a device specific issue that only affects a handful of Samsung notebooks: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[u/JustaFoodHole]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day,"
I'm so confused -- what do people use computers for lol!

[u/MOMMY_PILKERS]

Windows has become bug ridden, spyware slop.

[u/RainierPC]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day"

Who wrote this garbage?

[u/master_alucard0]

“While drive C is not something you want to open every day”…. Oh yea, who would touch the C drive? lol

[u/h3r4ld]

While drive C is not something you want to open every day

Unless you have multiple drives, literally everything you access on your computer requires opening or accessing C:\. What the fuck is this article on about?

[u/the_marvster]

Who needs C: anyway? Just boot from A: like the cool kids did. /s

[u/RandomUser2074]

While drive C is not something you want to open every day, the problem goes a bit deeper than just opening File Explorer.

Who doesnt use the main drive of their computer every day?

[u/FoxMcLOUD420 → u/RandomUser2074]

It’s literally used to boot.

[u/GurthNada → u/RandomUser2074]

The AI that wrote this probably...

[u/ScreechingPizzaCat]

If only there was a way to know if an update was bad before it was rolled out…

[u/RequiredRedditAcct_1]

I'm glad I'm still on windows 10

[u/immortalalchemist]

While drive C is not something you want to open every day…

Did AI write this?

[u/Ok_Still_8202]

Please downvote this AI-riddled garbage article. This is a Samsung Share application issue.

"Microsoft’s latest investigation points to the Samsung Share application as a probable contributing factor, though the root cause has not yet been fully validated."

https://cybersecuritynews.com/windows-11-bug-drive-c/

[u/msixtwofive]

"While drive C is not something you want to open every day"

Has whoever wrote this ever used a pc?

[u/RememberThinkDream]

Ok, so give us control of OUR PCs then. Give us the ability to avoid updates, permanently.