A recent patch bricked my entire hard drive making it unable to boot or mount. New install of Win11 on new hard drive didn’t install recovery mode so I had to do it manually.
Win11 has been a trash OS for me. Laggy on great hardware, ads, BSODs, reliability issues, and more. Not to mention devices like audio interfaces not working out of the box, despite working out of the box on Mac & Linux. Such an annoying operating system. It’s easily the least reliable OS I’ve used in the past 5 years of using Linux, Mac, and windows regularly. The only one that’s crashed on me frequently.
So it’s good they’re adding this tool, but sucks that these scenarios are so common a tool like this is needed. However, I’ve seen issues where something gets corrupted, a sfc scannow check is triggered on reboot, and never finds anything. Windows diagnostic troubleshooting is very painful because the OS doesn't give you much information, and what’s there is very obscure. So if this tool is built on that shoddy foundation, I’m not sure it’ll be very successful. There are thousands of guides suggesting an sfcscannow or other disk check and they never work.
Interesting comments here because from my limited usage of Windows 11 I thought it was pretty good. UI, Ads, and a lot of little annoying things are still there but it was also the case in Windows 10 and prior. ( Ok may be not ads ) But it is better.
I just wish Windows 11 start doing 11.1 and 11.2 instead of some 2H26 name. And start iterating towards a better Windows 12. May be because there are plenty of low hanging fruit still that makes Windows improvement easier.
Cant say the same about macOS. Let's see if macOS 26 will be any better.
> enrolled in the Canary channel of Microsoft's Windows Insider testing program. This is the least stable and most experimental of the four Windows 11 testing channels. As Microsoft adds features and fixes bugs, it should gradually move to the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels
Strange naming convention. In my company canary sits between dev and beta, usually used for load testing. Then move to beta for A/B and stability testing, and finally to release/production. Dev is the most unstable.
I think Dev from the Windows perspective is targeted towards people developing solutions atop windows, whereas I assume in your org, Dev is indicating development of the actual product/codebase you have. With Windows, Canary does come after that point - we don’t have access to the channel you would refer to as Dev.
It's a shame they abandoned Windows 10X, which would of allowed fatal upgrades to be instantly reversable (due to being image based) rather than 'workarounds' for terrible OS design like this.
Akin to Google using things like overlay filesystems to deploy Android updates (by skipping the OS managed by OEMs) rather than actually fixing the update system.
I'm actually pretty hopeful about this - I do some home computer help as a side gig and Windows recovery is usually either great or a complete roadblock. Usually if it can get to the recovery environment and people remember their passwords the existing tools are great. If not... well either wipe or good luck. Anything that helps Windows get to the RE is great.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 54.5 ms ] threadA recent patch bricked my entire hard drive making it unable to boot or mount. New install of Win11 on new hard drive didn’t install recovery mode so I had to do it manually.
So it’s good they’re adding this tool, but sucks that these scenarios are so common a tool like this is needed. However, I’ve seen issues where something gets corrupted, a sfc scannow check is triggered on reboot, and never finds anything. Windows diagnostic troubleshooting is very painful because the OS doesn't give you much information, and what’s there is very obscure. So if this tool is built on that shoddy foundation, I’m not sure it’ll be very successful. There are thousands of guides suggesting an sfcscannow or other disk check and they never work.
Which, in the best Microsoft tradition, will become broken by a new "update".
I just wish Windows 11 start doing 11.1 and 11.2 instead of some 2H26 name. And start iterating towards a better Windows 12. May be because there are plenty of low hanging fruit still that makes Windows improvement easier.
Cant say the same about macOS. Let's see if macOS 26 will be any better.
Strange naming convention. In my company canary sits between dev and beta, usually used for load testing. Then move to beta for A/B and stability testing, and finally to release/production. Dev is the most unstable.
Akin to Google using things like overlay filesystems to deploy Android updates (by skipping the OS managed by OEMs) rather than actually fixing the update system.