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Windows 11 January Update breaks boot up

There is an 'emergency' update today in windows update.
Someone must have goofed something up.
But my PC is running along just fine so far. I mainly use it for gaming and surfing the web.
 
Have 25H2 on hold since last September.

Microsoft updates have been a shitshow altogether.

Their last security patch completely broke Outlook worldwide and messed up people's emails without no fucking reason.
 
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Have had the KB5074109 update installed on all computers running W11 since like the 16th of January, so far no issues.

Even have a NEW update on all computers, KB5078127 waiting for installation.

Since installing 5078127, Ubisoft Connect has completely shit itself and broken my game save synching.

Might be unrelated, but I am suspicious and say maybe wait a couple more days and see if anything else surfaces
 
This is fucking glorious. I mean, it isn't for anyone affected but MS needs dragging for how poor windows 11 is, so this does nothing but fuel that much needed fire.
 
That's a BSOD that been around since the Windows Vista era, means your SATA controller drivers need a reinstall. Worth noting how many systems are affected, for all we know this could only occur on a specific OEM config rather than an OS wide issue.
 
Personally haven't had any issues. I don't know if it's even installed tbh. I never turn my computer off anyway.

Tried CachyOS in december because for whatever reason you can't play Mortal Kombat 11 online if your windows version mismatches from someone you're fighting against. I didn't like CachyOS and won't be returning to linux anytime soon. Just felt sluggish. I had issues shutting down nearly everytime. When I try to shutdown/restart computer to get back into Windows, it would just boot me to log in screen. One time the screen just went black and I had to hold the power button down to turn my pc off. I dunno, not a good first impression of Linux for me (outside of using my steamdeck in desktop mode a few times). Also most apps I used were stuck at 60hz? Firefox was 120hz and fine, but opening some apps made the mouse judder around like at 60hz. It was really odd.
 
Those news about broken updates explode every now and then but it's usually very small % of users that experience issues, and they don't have to be connected to the update itself (just bad timing).

So far with W11 (using it for years) I only had one big problem with updates, and this was when they tried to introduce Dolby Vision support - it fucking broke HDR and introduced green screen (and if you didn't know shortcut for HDR on/off - Windows+alt+B, you would be stuck with it), what a shitshow...
 
Steam OS for desktops cannot come soon enough
What will change vs Bazzite, Nobara, etc...???

Those news about broken updates explode every now and then but it's usually very small % of users that experience issues, and they don't have to be connected to the update itself (just bad timing).

So far with W11 (using it for years) I only had one big problem with updates, and this was when they tried to introduce Dolby Vision support - it fucking broke HDR and introduced green screen (and if you didn't know shortcut for HDR on/off - Windows+alt+B, you would be stuck with it), what a shitshow...
News to me. S2
 
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I installed those a week ago, no issues.

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Save us, Gabe. Release the Steam OS desktop version already!

I don't see what it will do that no other distro won't. Maybe there some crazy trick it can do out of the gate, but it won't take long for gaming distros to integrate that component or feature. That's what they do now.
 
Those news about broken updates explode every now and then but it's usually very small % of users that experience issues, and they don't have to be connected to the update itself (just bad timing).

So far with W11 (using it for years) I only had one big problem with updates, and this was when they tried to introduce Dolby Vision support - it fucking broke HDR and introduced green screen (and if you didn't know shortcut for HDR on/off - Windows+alt+B, you would be stuck with it), what a shitshow...
Now imagine when they start pushing these updates to their pc/console.
 
Using a custom install of windows 11 LTSC that has been tweaked to hell and back also haven't updated since 9/25

Switching over to project luna on my main rig as soon as I have time to tweak it on my backup rig just the way I like it
 
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