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Microsoft Blames Windows 11 “Unsupported Processor” Error Screens on Hardware Makers; Interferes With Full Screen Apps Demanding You Use Edge



Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.

Microsoft blames the recent Windows 11 updates that results in an “Unsupported Processor” Blue Screen of Death on hardware makers.



I’m not really sure that much needs to be said about this.



Linux computers don’t do this suddenly after an update. But if you use Windows 11, your “supported computer” (which are only really most of them build after 2018) could become “unsupported” as quickly as you install the mandatory patch update that month.



You can’t ever really be sure of what’s in the updates.



There’s one of them, it’s really huge, and you can’t assess the risks or pick it apart. One day, it could just kill your operating system and Microsoft will tell you to go talk to someone who cares. They’re not going to fix it.



I keep hearing Windows is “supported”. By whom?



They could fix this bug, by removing the almost totally fake “processor check”, but they won’t.



Wow, that’s such an amazing operating system!



And if that’s not bad enough, let’s just make this a double-feature.



Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use another Web browser.



It will harass you even for searching for one. It will harass you while you are on another browser maker’s Web site trying to download one.



Then after you install it and go to 27 different places making it the default, it will sometimes ignore it, and try to steal the defaults back, forcing you to start over.



But then if you manage to set the default browser, you will start getting notifications, on your desktop, from Microsoft, that you’ve made “a bad choice” and “you need to reconsider” (essentially).



This is the kind of thing the US v. Microsoft trial was about, they’ve even gotten in trouble in Europe, but they won’t stop.



These notifications are appearing even when you have a full screen application or video game running.



Why use Windows? Did you sign up to be harassed and heckled? Do you like this?



Using openSUSE Leap doesn’t feel like I’m at a huge risk of waking up to a broken computer.



They give me security patches here and there when they need to, an updated kernel now and then. But the churn is minimal. People don’t actually need all these updates, or shouldn’t, to just run a computer.



So why does Windows get hundreds of MB of broken updates every month and then forcibly install them on you, and then make you play Reboot Russian Roulette where you get to pray it comes back up and hasn’t hosed anything?



Have you ever wondered what’s in them?



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