I think people should leave windows. Most people are not using software that requires Windows, and Micrslop has turned a once good, if not great operating system, into a nightmare of issues, and broken systems. From Bleeping Computer: April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures
This issue sounds like it probably hit corporate users more than home users, though it does impact Windows 11 Home. But my stance on Windows holds. Most people are using web browsers, word processors, and spreadsheets, and you don't need to use Windows for that.
Multiple vendors have been impacted by this change. This tells me something fundamental was changed, and API or something similar, without thought, or advanced notice. But mostly without thought. Changes were made to Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which was introduced in 2003 to make sure that backups worked.
The list of software impacted by this known issue includes, but is not limited to, products from Acronis (Cyber Protect Cloud), Macrium (Reflect), NinjaOne Backup, and UrBackup Server.
Acronis has also published a support document confirming that the issue affects Windows 11 Pro and Home editions, causing backup operations to fail.
At least there is a fix, and you can click thru for that, and more technical details on the issue.
This kind of thing is becoming so common on Windows, it is hard to decide what, if any, quality control is being done. If they had done any testing around this feature, they would have discovered the impact to 3rd party software. Maybe they just don't care about quality anymore.
I have tried to avoid Microsoft, but they keep doing stupid stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhat are good alternatives?
ReplyDeleteIf money is no object there is Apple/Mac. I hate Apple even more than I hate Microsoft, and the extra cost is a killer. And I refuse to live in the walled garden.
DeleteI've been using Linux Mint. It comes with the basics I need installed. LibreOffice is like MS Office - but it's free. Comes with a video/music player installed. Comes with Firefox installed. It is about 93% like Windows. If you are mostly doing web, a few documents and spreadsheets. It should work.
You install everything you can through the software manager, and then updates get taken care of by the system.
There is a version of Linux that is skinned to look exactly like Windows. (ZorinOS or something like that - should be east to find)
I'm not a gamer, but a lot have switched to Arch Linux. (It is harder to install, and configure, so I haven't bothered.) MOST of the anti-cheats run on Linux now, and SteamOS is going to push the rest across that line eventually.
There is professional video editing on Linux in the form of DaVinci Resolve. It probably doesn't do everything that you get from Adobe, but it is a one time fee, not a subscription, and they have free version. It has fewer features, but you can get started. (There is also open source video editing for simple stuff) Not that I do much besides clip videos
I don't do much in the way of photo editing, so I mostly use GIMP or even Drawing (like MS Paint - for cropping/resizing etc.)
It is fairly easy to build a bootable USB drive, and try it out without actually overwriting anything on your disk. Still a good idea to have backups of everything, before experimenting. I couldn't get Etcher to work on my old PC, but Rufus created the USB drive for me on the first try.