Is it possible that Microsoft Windows is not a very good computer program

[nommiesav@social.vivaldi.net]

@honor2025 @mcc oh distro twins (i switched jan 2026 tho)

[lumiworx@mastodon.social]

@mcc

If you give a room full of monkeys with typewriters 150k random DLLs, could they produce Windows 12 by accident?

[d1@autistics.life]

@mcc it's an OS fit for raccoons halfway reaching into a juicy dumpster on a very hot and humid day, the stench radiating 10 metres in all directions like a punch in the face when it reaches one's nostrils

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@mcc its possible.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@mcc 0x800f0805

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@mcc No. Pretty confident it indeed takes that many programs to be that terrible. You wouldn't be able to do it with just one. A raw kernel that boots up to nothing couldn't do anywhere near the same level of damage nor cause the same amount of frustration. Trying to integrate enough into one monolithic program would cause it to fail cascade too soon I think.

In other words, no...it's several and has to be.

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@mcc

Copilot said no.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@sasanb @mcc came here scrolling the replies to find this exact pedantry in action

[rsada@mastodon.social]

@mcc Windows 10 is probably the worst version in my experience. I recall windows XP and 2000 as the best ones. Windows Vista was also terrible.

[lerxst@az.social]

@mcc I do believe I’ve heard that before.

[snazzee@tooot.im]

@mcc honestly Windows has fallen so far back in the last few years, I prefer ChromeOS or Fedora over it.

[Guest]

@mcc I feel like we would have heard something about this before now

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc bless their hearts, they try their best.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@mcc It's just one program in the sea of many 'not very good' programs.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@groxx @mcc

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@Tock @mcc they certainly have deteriorated, is it not the case that copilot has been designated as "just for gaming" due to its abysmal quality?

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc <insert 'never was' meme>

(or maybe 2.0 was? I just started my Windoze career with 3.0)

[pomi@social.tchncs.de]

@mcc@mastodon.soc'rename win.exe linux.sh' was very helpful

[barbra@social.vivaldi.net]

@rsada @mcc well, after getting rid of the built-in spyware and ending all Windows updates, and refusing extended support,10 is finally stable. No more crashes since October 24th of last year.

Which is what a lot of us who didn't bother with extended support kind of expected to happen.

[keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca]

@mahadevank @mcc Windows was born into a world that already had inodes, but it's damned if any of its filesystems will ever support such Unixian devilry