There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it's corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.

I'm not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.

Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.

This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe.
And don't worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows "virgin" until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.

That's mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn't truly been fixed.

Sometimes it's literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.

Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:

... People are still using Windows?

the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs

Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?

I use "incontrol" to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.

Well yes, but actually this is a security update

Look at it from the flip side: Linux is so bad people would rather deal with this than deal with Linux.

Came here to say "Well, maybe they're corrupting your data."

Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member "I'm too old to learn a new operating system!" Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.

Windows 11 only comes in 64 bit flavors so this would be a weird feature to leave in place.

I'm not using any software that doesn't have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?

Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.

Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.

Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It's not even worth mentioning. It's not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they'll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it's not a big issue. That's this. That's this exact thing.

I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.

Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn't remove people's data that one time. And hey, their so beloved --no-preserve-root didn't prevent that from happening.

I love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.

If something like del C:\*.* somehow ended up deleting your drive too, we wouldn't stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.

rm shouldn't exist at its current form. Full stop.

Lies! Linux never has issues!

My laptop's Linux install currently isn't corrupt and won't boot, honest!

Disclaimer: I actually like Linux a lot, JFC the windows hate is crazy...

Thank god i blocked windows updates and only allowed security updates for 23H2...

Yesterday I got into the process of installing Windows 10 onto my laptop because I am selling it tomorrow. I asked the buyer if he wanted it with an OS or not, and he replied that he wanted Windows 10 Pro. I downloaded the ISO and installed it to one of my M.2 SATA SSD drives with a USB adapter.

Before installing Windows over my Linux installation, I did a SecureErase to wipe out my drive with the Linux installation because that is the SSD I am selling with the computer.

After installing Windows 10 from the M.2 SATA SSD with a USB adapter to the SecureErased drive, I instantly got multiple error messages about SMART checks saying that the SSD was broken/corrupted. I had never seen this POST error message when booting that computer with a Linux installation.

Well, I obviously had to change the drive to another one where I got the Windows installation to work normally without the BIOS POST error message.

I really cannot be sure what caused that. Can SecureErase do that so SMART checks report the drive as corrupted? Or was it the Windows installation?

many have to - work from home, have to share data and programs with other workers. There are of course ways around it but I know literally thousands of people who are supplied with a company laptop with windows on it and they have to use it...