• LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    Getting ready to go back to Linux, just waiting to get some other stuff out of the way. Taskbar autohide on my Win10 box stopped working this morning. Minor annoyance, I looked it up and found a simple fix - restart the Windows Explorer process. Okay, did that, autohide started working. Bur srsly, the taskbar is almost 30 years old, low-level shit like this SHOULD JUST WORK. Now 12 hours later I just noticed it’s not working again. What the Actual Fuck, guys? Unbelievable.

    • ordellrb@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      And for some reason the file Explorer and the Desktop/Taskbar are connected and you can end up with just a black Screen

    • 0^2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      14 hours ago

      chkdsk /scan If any errors found, stop and /f them

      Then:

      DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

      Finally:

      sfc /scannow

      • InFerNo
        34·
        3 hours ago

        Is that command line stuff? Hard pass for Windows users.

        Edit: I guess the Windows users didn’t like that joke

        • Madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          7·
          12 hours ago

          yes, it is. those are pretty much the definitive windows commands to try to fix random stuff like this too, if they fail then it’s reinstall time lmao

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
          3·
          12 hours ago

          Sure, but then they shouldnt complain. Stuff break on linux too and when fixing them you also often have to open a terminal. When things are broken, a terminal is often the goto on any system…

    • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      Technically yes but (without reading the article) going by what drivers were removed previously any affected device has been incompatible with modern linux kernels for a while so this probably doesn’t affect anyone’s experience using linux

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    21 hours ago

    Have you seen old 80’s-90’s style C driver code? Lines of code is an even more terrible metric for this than it usually is.

    • somtwo@lemmy.world
      81·
      18 hours ago

      I think the fact that any old code is being removed at all is a good thing. The point of the post (at least from my perspective) is that deleting old code is something necessary for prolonged support of a codebase and it’s not something Microsoft is or maybe even ever will prioritize.