If you ever tried the infamous “Update and shut down” option in any Windows build, it often leads to a reboot instead to an actual shutdown. Now, Microsoft has finally fixed this issue starting with Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200.7019 (or 26100.7019 on 24H2). According to the Windows Latest, Microsoft has shipped this broken functionality way back with Windows 10, and has never fixed it since. However, the Windows teams working behind the update have finally managed to ship a working solution with a note stating in Windows 11 experiences that the new build: “Addressed underlying issue which can cause “Update and shutdown” to not actually shut down your PC after updating.”
Good timing. The straw the broke the camel’s back before switching to Linux two months ago was watching my PC reboot after “update and shutdown” and saying “I shouldn’t have to deal with this!”
One reason why it’s trash, tackled. A million more to go. Can’t wait to see their progress in 2036
Oh, this was a general issue? It was driving me crazy as I was certain I hit “shut down” instead of “reboot”. I am soon getting a Linux laptop at work anyway (I’ve only been waiting about 5 montha for it now, so any day now!) - so I will hopefully not experience this fix.
Excellent. Sometimes I’d use the option for my work machine on a Friday only to find the fucking thing had rebooted instead.
Let’s see if it behaves when I do it in an hour or two.
So, I settled on Nobara (Plasma desktop) almost week ago now. Besides my troubles with Wacom tablet (it happens with all distros I tried, no solution so far), it’s all good. The OS isn’t constantly nagging me about something. It doesn’t lie about not restarting when I ask it to hold off -and consequently lose no work because of it. There is no random ad on the login screen. No web results sorted to appear first when I type to search for a local file or command. I can disable stuff I don’t use, such as window animations, etc. No shovelware like one-fucking-drive or some LLM butler taking up room, ram, and mental health.
All in all, I feel weirdly at peace when using this machine. It’s just a tool that’s succeeding in getting out of the way.
The only downside is I can’t use the Affinity suite, but besides that… perfect
Thanks ! will certainly test when I get the chance. No hardware acceleration isn’t surprising, but it may be worth the trouble still
Been using Nobara for nearly a year. Pretty solid. My biggest complaint about the distro is googling it spoiled an anime I wasn’t really planning on watching in the first place.
Great. Now can we have the option for a vertical task bar back?
*laughs in KDE*
Imagine using an operating system that you don’t have to labor away to escape advertisements and upselling after every update.
true dat.
my statement was more you can do whatever you want in KDE
Just for the sake of the anecdote, I just discovered that in KDE Plasma, you can put a taskbar anywhere you like, including vertically, resize it, and even rotate it at an arbitrary angle! it’s pretty much useless… but you can
It baffles me how few people know that they can just replace the Explorer shell.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/shell-launcher/
You could have vertical task bar in vanilla windows 10. They took it out in 11 because fuck you, presumably.
They rewrote it and only implemented half the features. Just like the settings app and a bunch of other things. Because who ever cared about feature parity?
That baffles you? I’d be willing to be 99% of windows users don’t even know what explorer.exe is.
Yes, but it’ll take them another ten years
Even just a top bar would be great.
How could the taskbar regress so badly?
Literally one of the reasons Windows boots so rarely on my devices.
Why the fuck are they fighting the vertical task bar? Or the 3D files folder? I’ve wasted so much time in connecting this shite OS from OneDrive and copilot.
I don‘t know what you mean. I can have vertical or horizontal bars wherever I want, how many I want and with different apps pinned to each if I want. KDE Linux btw.
How convenient that windows 10 support is over. They probably had the fix and waited to ensure more people downgrade to 11
Too little too late. Shit like this would not fly in an open OS and is they were only able to do it that long, as they give a shot about customer demands. Fuck these proprietary software! Never again will i be held back by corpo software!
Did you write that comment on an Android or an iPhone?
“You participate in society yet you criticize it ☝️🤓” comment.
Furthermore, what do two different mobile OS have to do with a desktop one?
He said: “Fuck these proprietary software! Never again will i be held back by corpo software!”
No one is making a distinction between mobile and desktop here but you…
As fas as I can remember, Android and iPhone are proprietary corpo software.
I hope that helped clearing your confusion, my little bright light.
Don’t defy the echo chamber lest you desire the down votes!
I thought that they were joking, as stuff like this also happens in open software and can take ages to fix (if it’s even kept up to date for a lot of niche software), and most of us use SOME sort proprietary software even if there’s a bigger % of open source enthusiasts on Lemmy.
That’s why the Android/iOS comment was even more out of place.
But then again, this is Lemmy…it might have been literal…
Right, so they wait until just after Windows 10 reaches EOL to release the patch for this annoying bug. Typical. They’ve probably had the solution ready for ages.
But there will never be another Windows 10 update, so it’s really no longer an issue.
I wish I would have had that issue instead. What happened for me was that it would shut down like normal, but then I would get a BSOD on startup, have to restart the computer, reinstall the update, and manually choose restart again (it had to be from the startup menu, not from a windowed program) to actually get it installed.
Oh, I had thought it was me hitting the wrong button
What’s “Windows” ?
Windows 9
Great. Now bring back Windows 7
