Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨‍💻 - @Barnacules

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  • @Barnacules
    @Barnacules  5 лет назад +498

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    • @dalezapple2493
      @dalezapple2493 5 лет назад +8

      Windows 10 - free telemetry and worth every penny

    • @Jpetersson
      @Jpetersson 5 лет назад +8

      I thought RTM stands for Release To Manufacturing? Not media...

    • @nakyer
      @nakyer 5 лет назад +13

      You made me laugh with the reference to "Your computer isn't ready for this update yet". Hey, my computer is fine. It's the update that isn't ready for my machine! 8)

    • @nakyer
      @nakyer 5 лет назад +1

      @@Jpetersson Shhhh! The Barnacules is speaking!!!

    • @Jpetersson
      @Jpetersson 5 лет назад

      @@nakyer Shhh!

  • @SergioEduP
    @SergioEduP 5 лет назад +1793

    so what you are saying is that i can add "Beta tester of software used by millions worldwide" to my resume

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +184

      Absolutely!

    • @David-xl8zf
      @David-xl8zf 5 лет назад +71

      Especially when you´re using Home Edition yes.

    • @tuunaes
      @tuunaes 5 лет назад +43

      More like alpha tester with Microsoft's management not being even interested on getting most bugs corrected before pushing patches out.
      Otherwise they would still have proper own testing department.

    • @FragEightyfive
      @FragEightyfive 5 лет назад +37

      not millions. BILLIONS.

    • @NathanJennings1222
      @NathanJennings1222 5 лет назад +20

      Among the reasons Windows 10 is for free. Ironically, Linux OSes are also for free and crash far less often.

  • @Kenlauderdale123
    @Kenlauderdale123 4 года назад +31

    Windows 10 feels like put together by a duct tape, unlike previous versions of Windows, even Windows Vista feels so wholesome and rugged compared to Windows 10

  • @233kosta
    @233kosta 4 года назад +162

    Sounds to me like some genius executive had a brilliant cost saving idea...

    • @edt.9218
      @edt.9218 4 года назад +13

      just another company run by cheapskates, to hell with the customer

    • @bvnseven
      @bvnseven 4 года назад +2

      Impossible; there are no genius execs at Microshaft.

    • @233kosta
      @233kosta 4 года назад

      @@bvnseven One had already assumed that fact self evident...

    • @CognizantCheddar
      @CognizantCheddar 4 года назад +3

      Anti-consumer practices are everywhere.

    • @233kosta
      @233kosta 4 года назад +5

      @@CognizantCheddar Doesn't mean we should put up with them

  • @ProfessorShroom
    @ProfessorShroom 4 года назад +372

    I never thought I'd see anyone taking credit for Vista.

    • @servantofthemosthigh2525
      @servantofthemosthigh2525 4 года назад +12

      Eww that shit was horrible
      ...i remember that crap

    • @TheUltamatium
      @TheUltamatium 4 года назад +37

      Vista wasn’t that bad.

    • @Jesujej
      @Jesujej 4 года назад +19

      @@TheUltamatium yes
      it was the worst

    • @Darkerfoxtech
      @Darkerfoxtech 4 года назад +22

      @@Jesujej Windows ME: would like to know your location.

    • @stevendx6601
      @stevendx6601 4 года назад +6

      I never had an issue with it really. I skipped 7. Shrug nothing to brag about. Its all the same now will just use what is installed.

  • @harshbarj
    @harshbarj 5 лет назад +765

    I'd love to send a full dump to Microsoft. Working on one right now.

    • @maxmaxmaxmax647
      @maxmaxmaxmax647 5 лет назад +48

      I see what you did there , and cant be more supportive of it !

    • @dalezapple2493
      @dalezapple2493 5 лет назад +7

      LoL

    • @motoryzen
      @motoryzen 5 лет назад +11

      Yeah...my turds contain plenty of peanuts...Hopefully the turds that laid off Jerry are allergic 😂

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +135

      Don't wipe, it makes it harder for them to find the bugs.

    • @motoryzen
      @motoryzen 5 лет назад +16

      @@Barnacules You're probably correct, but at this point in my life after dealing with Microshit's problems since even 95 ( I skipped vista ftr). I'm doing being a beta tester for them. The only thing keeping me from going 100% linux right now ( which I"m ..almost there) is getting the last remaining corner of the world gaming able to work... such as Crysis 3 via ea's shitty Origin launcher. That's basically it.
      regardless Jerry, You are an asset to the modern world good man. I hope people remember your name, your vibe, you intentions as well as your accomplishments.
      It's people like you that still help make Windows tolerable. cheers. good man.

  • @tommytomtomtomestini3894
    @tommytomtomtomestini3894 5 лет назад +251

    So, basically they do what the game world does... Early Access/Preorder = unpaid beta-testers

    • @cryothunder328
      @cryothunder328 5 лет назад

      lol!

    • @cahsahhhhhhhn
      @cahsahhhhhhhn 5 лет назад +1

      My insider edition Win 10 worked better than the 8.1 of the time though. Win 10 has gotten more bugs as we go it seems

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +12

      That's a great way to put it.

    • @EricBarthDev
      @EricBarthDev 5 лет назад

      @Joe I wouldn't say the industry, I'd say the corporate entities that own the game studios about which you're complaining.
      Just being literal. :P

    • @Razor2048
      @Razor2048 5 лет назад +1

      Sadly early access and public betas have nothing to do with betas or bug fixing. If you have taken part in a true closed beta where you a tually sign an NDA
      In return for some co pensation, you will get to test the product including some games. (had a chance to do a AAA game many years ago), and during that process which usually came after the internal QA team was done. You could report a bug and issue it a priority, and usually within a few hours someone from the dev team may contact you if more info was needed, or if specific dumps were needed. A real beta while you will be paid less than your time is actually worth, is still fun and rewarding since you get to test what would be a feature complete product, and have your feedback actually be valued with personalized attention.

  • @oliverford5367
    @oliverford5367 4 года назад +20

    The problem also is the "windows as a service" idea. An operating system is NOT a service. A service is a website or an application. System code is different from application code. An operating system has thousands of complex moving parts that need to work on thousands of hardware configurations. MS used to make major upgrades every 3-5 years - 95/98/2000/XP. By switching to 2 major releases a year they just don't have the time to fully test everything. Slow it down to one major release every 2 years and there'll be fewer bugs.

  • @PatrickDickey52761
    @PatrickDickey52761 4 года назад +33

    They need to bring back the Tech Beta testers. I was one from MSN Explorer through Windows 7 until they decided to go with the telemetry from "public" betas and stopped listening to us.

    • @goodluck6948
      @goodluck6948 4 года назад +1

      @Dhir Am same :) using win7 right now. and will keep using it until it becomes unusable... which it won't for a while

    • @edbo10
      @edbo10 3 года назад +1

      @Dhir Am this goes with most software/UI these days.
      Let's move everything to a web-based engine just because we can that somehow has less functionality than previous versions at the cost of more performance!
      I fucking hate this trend of flat, overly simplistic icons together with shitty web-based interfaces that make your computer fans become turbine engines

  • @matthewkuhl79
    @matthewkuhl79 5 лет назад +237

    This comes close to confirmation about suspicions i've had about how industry has moved away from in-house beta to an end-user beta model.
    Very customer-hostile practice.

    • @webspec
      @webspec 4 года назад +38

      matthew kühl Add to that the "forum based support" where basically users help each other for free and we are almost in the open source realm. Should just publish the code and let us fix it at this point.

    • @TheChaztor
      @TheChaztor 4 года назад +3

      @@webspec I'm shocked; You don't get real help from MS support personnel? And instead the IRL persons willing to share? Shocked I tell you. /sarcasm

    • @klarahfenderson1374
      @klarahfenderson1374 4 года назад +6

      "Shove it out the door ASAP and worry fixing it later." And nothing ever gets fixed, from OS's to Browsers which just need constant updating, and games that end up being fixed by "unofficial" user-created patches (Bethesda games)

    • @ChrisJones-rd4wb
      @ChrisJones-rd4wb 4 года назад

      *laughs in bleeding edge arch linux*

    • @moltenlava1877
      @moltenlava1877 4 года назад

      and makes us to pay as well

  • @SylwesterKogowski
    @SylwesterKogowski 4 года назад +46

    Wow, this... process of "testing"... Is so against the modern standards and methods of development.
    Dang, I can only imagine how much did they prolong the time-to-fix of some bugs and most probably made some bugs impossible to fix with those data.

    • @davidleet9501
      @davidleet9501 3 года назад +5

      Supposedly Zuckerberg had said at one time about application development to throw it together, release it, and then see what breaks. Apparently Microsoft thinks the same.

    • @Jenacide
      @Jenacide 3 года назад +1

      Some bugs I have had over several years and several different computers. If I didn't need windows for my games I would never use it again.

  • @JonathanKayne
    @JonathanKayne 4 года назад +391

    That was why I hated Microsoft pulling telemetry from my PC. If they want to use MY hardware and MY electricity and resources for fixing THEIR problems, then I want them to pay rent!

    • @stevendx6601
      @stevendx6601 4 года назад +4

      All they had to do was grab a copy of the prefetch folder or turn on task mgr with the mini dump. Then test all the software people were using on their boxes not ours.
      Some Microsoft Developers were good, others were college kids doing their first gig. I could run different year versions of Delorme Street Maps on the same laptop and it worked.
      That is rock solid skill. Apparently they changed Visual Studio too much, and you can not make tablet versions of some software always.
      Delorme was bought out and not exists now. Microsoft street maps was not as good. None of them are, especially the apps. They wanted to charge for arial photos, bye bye?
      Get used to buggy software and upgrades you do not want on free stuff I guess.

    • @confusername
      @confusername 4 года назад +7

      @@marlinlenchanteur4260 Compatability my friend, there is a trade off. Even proton or wine doesn't run everything Windows can. Also there's the stubbornness of not wanting to change what you use.

    • @prophetzarquon1922
      @prophetzarquon1922 4 года назад +8

      Linux yes, MacOS not so much.
      The only thing MacOS has going for it is that they don't even _try_ to support most hardware, accessories, or third party app workflows. Finding a Linux distro that isn't a hot mess is actually more of a needle in a haystack than it was ten years ago, too.
      It's all a flaming train wreck of toxic practices. Monetized services are ruining everything they touch.

    • @TheVic256
      @TheVic256 4 года назад +3

      Fedora linux is awesome!

    • @GamingMOFO
      @GamingMOFO 4 года назад +4

      If you hate Microsoft then use Linux :)

  • @CraigLillie
    @CraigLillie 5 лет назад +366

    Here's a vote for the Clonezilla video! It would be usefully useful I think! ;)

    • @hycron1234
      @hycron1234 5 лет назад

      Yeah, but don't you still have to boot Clonezilla from usb, then do the backup? I'd rather use Macrium Reflect, at least the drive image can be done while you're still using Windows, no downtime.

    • @ndog37
      @ndog37 5 лет назад +1

      Boot clonezilla from a boot loader like grub or clover. Ye I uploaded some vids already above this. If you too noob just watch a vid

    • @MRThelocokid121
      @MRThelocokid121 5 лет назад

      please !!!

    • @edmilton738
      @edmilton738 4 года назад

      @@hycron1234 I use Clonezilla's boot to ram from CD, then remove the CD media. Win10 bugs are no problem then, everything is straightforward.

  • @Barnacules
    @Barnacules  5 лет назад +104

    How many of you got the "Bug Bash" email from Microsoft right after this video went live? I just have to laugh at the irony of that. Microsoft trying to get free labor because they don't want to maintain a proper accountable test team. However, I hope some people really do find some great bugs and help Microsoft fix them because the current insider build stuff is falling way too short and Microsoft just proved my point in this video by scheduling the Bug Bash.

    • @CheesyMcBeard
      @CheesyMcBeard 5 лет назад +2

      So that's why you get all the BSODS. Because you in the insider program? Isn't that what you could expect when u use a not stable version of Windows?

    • @macdonalds1972
      @macdonalds1972 5 лет назад +9

      You sound bitter. No wonder you got fired.

    • @cAjUnPeCkEr
      @cAjUnPeCkEr 5 лет назад +2

      i'm on 1903 fast update builds and i can verify that DISM and system restore is still BROKEN and shits the bed when it comes to the Microsoft Store. I had to reinstall the latest WIB. Feels sluggish...but working. R5 1600x - Asus X370-f Gaming/Strix RX 480- vengeance rgb pro 3200c16 CJR - ar938X WIRELESS

    • @Canadian789119
      @Canadian789119 5 лет назад +2

      I love bash, I never find bugs in bash.

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +2

      M M I’m not in the insider program.

  • @WhyYouAskingMe
    @WhyYouAskingMe 4 года назад +66

    This video summarized: Microsoft took a dump on all of us.

    • @kierkegaardrulez
      @kierkegaardrulez 4 года назад +3

      Matthew Wallen I thought this was common knowledge for a long time.

    • @jfeeney100
      @jfeeney100 4 года назад +6

      It's what happens when you get rid of software QA. Bad things. Very bad things.

    • @circuitbreaker1434
      @circuitbreaker1434 4 года назад

      @rustybuttpate maybe you should change your password

    • @clocked0
      @clocked0 4 года назад

      @@circuitbreaker1434 I changed mine to windowstux, clearly more secure /s

  • @supertacosauce
    @supertacosauce 4 года назад +68

    There have definitely been moments where I wanted to send a 'full dump' to Microsoft XD

    • @onetwo3706
      @onetwo3706 4 года назад +4

      Send it in the mail along with faeces

    • @Jenacide
      @Jenacide 3 года назад +1

      There have been times I have wanted to lock them in one of their buildings and light it on fire. Oh wait did I say there have been times? I mean pretty much every single day for the last 10 years.

    • @191.
      @191. 2 года назад

      HAHAHA no doubt!

  • @serpent77
    @serpent77 5 лет назад +578

    TL;DR. You ARE the beta tester now.

    • @togwam
      @togwam 5 лет назад +13

      Serpent77 more like TL;DW

    • @cerealkiller4341
      @cerealkiller4341 5 лет назад +30

      So that's why Microsoft gave me Windows 10 for free. I'm the unpaid tester! D:

    • @serpent77
      @serpent77 5 лет назад +2

      @@togwam yeah, I knew I was leaving myself open to that one if I went with the common acronym :p

    • @togwam
      @togwam 5 лет назад +4

      Serpent77 I really hope no hard feelings, I don’t like to ridicule or destroy anyone’s confidence

    • @serpent77
      @serpent77 5 лет назад +3

      @@togwam nawww, we're cool, I chuckled that someone called it out so fast ;)

  • @startrekfreak59
    @startrekfreak59 5 лет назад +64

    So good to see you back on youtube. Thanks for all the great videos!

  • @OutOfTheBoxThinker
    @OutOfTheBoxThinker 4 года назад +71

    In my experience, these are the main reasons bugs are increasing in most software companies :
    * "agile" development generating more technical debt with ever iteration
    * insufficient time being assigned for maintenance and/or testing
    * developers being treated as cogs in a machine rather than individuals
    * insufficient developers
    * "Diversity" or socialibility being prefered during hiring rather than programming skill

    • @easyaspi31415
      @easyaspi31415 4 года назад +10

      Good points, especially the diversity > skill nonsense.
      Also I would add:
      * Rapid/fixed release cycles forcing updates to be pushed based on a deadline, resulting in code being released that isn't ready or "well we have to change *something*"
      * The "-Werror" issue, where correct code may be rejected simply because it causes compiler warnings or triggers static analysis.

    • @Sparxeb
      @Sparxeb 4 года назад +5

      Couldn’t agree more. I won’t say where I work but I am a Software Engineer and one of our new hires was more than clearly a diversity hire. I have no issue with diversity, I do have an issue that he has absolutely no skills needed for his role.
      The other issues like agile, the insane time frames and expectations they have of us... it’s all a problem. Right now we’re moving a lot of on premise apps to Azure and the new automated code checks have been a nightmare.

    • @jeongkim6679
      @jeongkim6679 4 года назад +2

      Agile seems to produce great marketing, not great products.

    • @jeanm.9570
      @jeanm.9570 4 года назад +5

      I agree with you on the diversity hire aspect.
      People are treating meritocracy as a bad thing and emphasizing your race or ethnicity.
      Also, being hired based on the color of your skin instead of what you bring into the table is actually very insulting and you could argue that it is actually racist.

    • @babybirdhome
      @babybirdhome 4 года назад +1

      Agile actually works very well. It's just that most organizations implement it very badly or completely wrong. If agile methodology is causing more issues than it's solving then someone up the chain has failed to understand what it's for and how to use it properly and just tried to adapt waterfall to it by eliminating planning and testing to make waterfall fast instead of becoming agile.
      In my experience, a lot of times it comes down to poor choices being made in metrics, what to measure and why, without considering what they're actually incentivizing by measuring that thing. For example, the company that tried to clean up their environment from the malware they kept getting on user endpoints by giving employees a small bonus for finding malware on a system and reporting it. Sounds like a win win, right up until they had someone bringing in a CD full of malware and infecting the system over and over again so he could get the bonuses.
      To use agile properly and effectively, you have to start by measuring and rewarding the right things, otherwise you get needless software churn for no reason other than to bump metrics and look good to poor management wanting to see agile "working well".

  • @expression3639
    @expression3639 4 года назад +15

    You have answered my long standing question of "How is is that Microsoft, a company with so much capital and the ability to poach talent from anywhere can't manage to get their fingers out of their nose and ship a working OS"

  • @someitguy2175
    @someitguy2175 5 лет назад +116

    My boss
    "You're a Linux Admin, why do you have all our workstations configured to deliver Microsoft diagnostic data"?
    Me
    "I want Microsoft to know when their stuff breaks."

    • @IncendiarySolution
      @IncendiarySolution 4 года назад +4

      Salt that wound baby

    • @ThejusRao
      @ThejusRao 4 года назад +6

      No. Don't give them ANYTHING. Let them hire back the testing team to get their own details as to why it crashed.

    • @someitguy2175
      @someitguy2175 4 года назад +3

      @@ThejusRao That would be ideal, but I need these stupid machines to stay online. Keeping things running outweighs ideological desires.
      That said, I am almost finished migrating the MSSQL servers to RHEL. I might have to deal with the desktops, but fewer Windows servers make me happy.

    • @IncendiarySolution
      @IncendiarySolution 4 года назад +2

      Change users over to Linux, problem solved

    • @someitguy2175
      @someitguy2175 4 года назад +5

      @@IncendiarySolution ROFL. Sure, because Internet Explorer and Excel work great in Linux! I should specify I work in the financial services sector. You would have to get all the banks and trading platforms to switch to HTML5, and Microsoft to make web based excel work with all the scripts/plugins as the local version does.
      To give you an example; I recently deployed a terrible trading platform that keeps me awake at night. Requirements were Windows server, UAC disabled, firewall disabled, all sensitive files stored on network share with "everyone allow all", all clients get the sa password to the database, and all clients get UAC disabled.

  • @brainsironically
    @brainsironically 5 лет назад +370

    So.... Windows Vista was *your* fault???? lol ;)

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +155

      Brains Ironically I’m required to take a little bit of responsibility for that one ☝🏻

    • @comicsanz97
      @comicsanz97 5 лет назад +40

      Hey, Vista was actually good in the last years of support! I stopped using it in 2017. It was bad at the beginning, but after years of patches it became pretty usable.

    • @bonkerz7801
      @bonkerz7801 5 лет назад +2

      So do we get our pitchforks?

    • @ArtisChronicles
      @ArtisChronicles 5 лет назад +4

      @@comicsanz97 I'd use vista ultimate today. Since I have access to better hardware now lol

    • @Trendyflute
      @Trendyflute 5 лет назад +9

      Vista seemed awful at the time, but I learned it at a job where I had been using 7 at home already...I ended up realizing that Vista is basically 7 under the hood, with more memory usage and a much more difficult to understand UI. But once you learn it, it's 7, and it was actually pretty good!

  • @baselsalam
    @baselsalam 4 года назад +14

    I was also in Test, somehow survived the layoffs and transitioned to Dev. You hit it right on the head.

  • @longjohn526
    @longjohn526 4 года назад +26

    Jerry Jerry .... According to Forbes you are now a "whistleblower"
    " .... and Microsoft was even hit by a whistle-blower exposing the reasons for the increase in instability. "

    • @goodluck6948
      @goodluck6948 4 года назад

      Forbes, lol.

    • @davidleet9501
      @davidleet9501 3 года назад +1

      More Main Stream Media idiocy. He can't be a whistleblower, as he doesn't work for them anymore.

  • @byCDMC
    @byCDMC 5 лет назад +38

    Keep on making Windows videos like this. Not a lot, or if any people, have such knowledge as you do on RUclips about Windows. Keep videos like this coming! If you do, you will hit 2mill subs in no time. Also, Scammer calls are hilarious

    • @AvocadoBondage
      @AvocadoBondage 5 лет назад +2

      by CDMC Dude if he made tutorials on proper things to enable/disable on windows 10 from an “ex-employee” standpoint he would get a lot more attention.
      There’s a lack of RUclips content on windows 10 issues, how to prevent them, what hardware is affected with updates, actual changes from one version of windows to the next and barnacles would be perfect for that.
      I hope he reads this and gets back into it because a lot of people would really appreciate the insight/help!

  • @gromgardenlor
    @gromgardenlor 5 лет назад +142

    This guy is pretty smart. He should work with computers or something.

    • @supercoolmunkee
      @supercoolmunkee 5 лет назад +1

      Well he is doing "something" which is talking about computers 🤣

    • @TheSenseiKai
      @TheSenseiKai 5 лет назад

      Wooooosh

    • @gromgardenlor
      @gromgardenlor 5 лет назад +3

      @@TheSenseiKai Imagine writing woooosh on a joke and woooshing yourself lol.

    • @TheSenseiKai
      @TheSenseiKai 5 лет назад +1

      @@gromgardenlor wooosh

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад

      Gromsterino 😂😂😂

  • @northerncanuck
    @northerncanuck 4 года назад +6

    As a tester turned programmer thank you for describing it as it is. Your experiences resonate with basically what I assumed was happening based on stories I've heard since the release of Windows 10.
    I personally delay feature updates for 180 days - to give enough time for a new release to pass a litmus test and so when I decide to upgrade, it's a time at my convenience (I'll manually update to the new version probably at the 100 - 180 day mark - before I get prompted).
    Software development would be improved greatly by beefing up testing knowledge and processes. Unfortunately, most developers haven't done a QA stint so they don't necessarily appreciate the troubleshooting skills you would build while in this position - which translates to cleaner, much more robust code if you decide to switch to a programmer later on.
    Unfortunately, it's difficult to get managements attention when you're trying to make a case for being proactive and improve software functionality. Testing only proves the existence of bugs. Testing doesn't ensure a software product is "bug-free". As long as management considers QA and IT as a cost center versus a profit center, we aren't going to be able to change their minds.

  • @goodgreatlife
    @goodgreatlife 4 года назад +201

    I am still using Windows 7 and after that linux

    • @TheDiveDawg
      @TheDiveDawg 4 года назад +3

      google Zorin, it's as close to windows as any of the Linux distros.
      I have one box left with windows7

    • @FlyboyHelosim
      @FlyboyHelosim 4 года назад +13

      I thought that I'd always use Windows 7 but recently upgraded to Windows 10, and honestly, it's nowhere near as bad as people make out. The most pressing thing is really that you need the hardware to run it properly.

    • @grieverff8ff9
      @grieverff8ff9 4 года назад +12

      I'm probably going to go back to Windows 7 myself. i hate 10 so much.

    • @techzone2009
      @techzone2009 4 года назад

      Welcome ✋✋

    • @cerverg
      @cerverg 4 года назад +7

      @@exagol8921 I tried Windows 10 and no matter what I tried I couldn't make half of my hardware to work properly. It's absolute garbage.

  • @CNC-Time-Lapse
    @CNC-Time-Lapse 5 лет назад +59

    As a C# developer since 2003, this video was great. I've done some contract work for M$ about 10 years ago and it was impressive back then the code reviews and documentation/test plans needed before code could be submitted up the chain.
    It's always funny to me how some companies discount their QA department and think that just using automated and virtualized tools alone will be sufficient for the developer to troubleshoot and reproduce a problem. I especially appreciated your comment on how leaving troubleshooting to the developer with little details forces them to guess and assume what the potential fix might be (and often very dangerous). QA's are the real heroes. For anyone out there who works in QA, thank you for saving our butts and making our lives easier and safer. Nothing feels as good when your confident in your release build. :)

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +6

      This comment made my day, thank you George! 👍

    • @Vim_Tim
      @Vim_Tim 5 лет назад +4

      It's a negative cycle: companies undervalue QA, so all the talented engineers avoid QA, which lowers the quality of QA work, which leads to companies further undervaluing QA...

    • @Diode5
      @Diode5 5 лет назад +3

      I guess Microsoft are still finding their feet on how fast they can make their development cycle. The old way found more bugs but the OS needed to pick up the pace of feature releases. I guess look at where Windows 10 is today and all the cool things being built into it. Under the old product cycle, it simply wouldn't have happened. As an enterprise customer I like the 19H2, 20H2, etc concept. Let's make H2 releases about stability and slow up the pace of how fast features come out. Even Apple only release once a year.

  • @lowellhouser7731
    @lowellhouser7731 5 лет назад +216

    Still waiting on a "switched to Linux" video. I know it's coming.

    • @esra_erimez
      @esra_erimez 5 лет назад +11

      The funny thing is that there is a RUclips channel named "Switched to Linux"

    • @lowellhouser7731
      @lowellhouser7731 5 лет назад +2

      @@esra_erimez I'm aware.

    • @lowellhouser7731
      @lowellhouser7731 5 лет назад +6

      @TarekT My first Linux install was SUSE 6.3. I couldn't do anything with it back then, so I switched back to Windows2000, and then installed Deus Ex just to give you some idea of how long it's been since then. I got rid of my Win7 drive almost four years ago because I hadn't actually booted into it in six months. Fedora has been my daily driver for going on five years, and I was dual booting for a few years previous(mainly Ubuntu). I really recommend people looking to stop being abused by Microsoft to check out PopOS! or Mint(IT Professionals would be better served with Fedora or CentOS because Red Hat). Your favorite Windows game probably runs via SteamPlay. If not Lutris is a safe bet.

    • @glidersuzuki5572
      @glidersuzuki5572 5 лет назад +2

      @TarekT i used to run kubuntu too but it had a issue with Ethernet cable. Now using mx Linux and loving it

    • @fernabianer1898
      @fernabianer1898 5 лет назад +1

      I'd love to see that :D

  • @monoclesquid9667
    @monoclesquid9667 4 года назад +9

    “Let’s just bury functions people don’t use much. That can only go well.”

    • @1God1Fury
      @1God1Fury 3 года назад

      they threat it as if only 6 years old kids using windows.
      Yeah, absolutely hate how they bury functionality, especially when you need to fix another fail windows update that broke your pc.

  • @mrhxrty
    @mrhxrty 4 года назад +4

    Jerry, I'm a long time viewer and this video is spot on. I'm a 2nd line engineer and we have to pick up the pieces for Microsoft constantly for our clients. I would LOVE to see you do build reviews for Windows - actual useful information about new releases including new useful features & known issues that actually affect people! Truthfully I could fully claim I work for Microsoft as a OS beta tester with the amount of telemetry these guys use. Just a classic example of a big company not giving a shit about their customers and trying to get a machine to do a humans work. Much love for you dude keep up the vids👍⚡

  • @xfire114
    @xfire114 5 лет назад +288

    Funny how all these problems started popping off after you got laid off, coincidence?!!?.....
    Probably

    • @yihuang2005
      @yihuang2005 5 лет назад +4

      Fire good guys first, so they dont stop somebody starts doing bad things.

    • @abeplus7352
      @abeplus7352 5 лет назад +21

      @@curt8806 agree to disagree. You can write code that finds bugs and problems , but at the end of the day the people fixing it are humans. As a developer when I have a QA guy tell me here's the issue , here's a scrwen shot , here's a video. It literally takes me about 10m to at least realise oh ok. Any time I get a user reported bug or through something automitatdd , I could spend 3 days chasing a codebase which might not even be the issue.

    • @jaanikaapa6925
      @jaanikaapa6925 5 лет назад

      Abe Plus Exactly.

    • @jaanikaapa6925
      @jaanikaapa6925 5 лет назад

      I agree with you. Why testing that actually works isn't worth it?

    • @Brysett
      @Brysett 5 лет назад

      Rule 39
      (NCIS reference)

  • @Dracathio
    @Dracathio 5 лет назад +308

    I'd rather stop windows 10 from updating without my permission.

    • @Verpal
      @Verpal 5 лет назад +12

      You can turn off Window 10 update, that being said its a bit annoying having to install security update manually.

    • @lopwidth7343
      @lopwidth7343 5 лет назад +1

      @@Verpal officially or with work arounds or third-party?

    • @Verpal
      @Verpal 5 лет назад +11

      @@lopwidth7343 Turn off Win 10 update only require simple registry change, perhaps turn off most telemetry whilst you at it.
      To turn off telemetry and Intel ME as much as possible though, third part tool required.

    • @IvanOoze1990
      @IvanOoze1990 5 лет назад +9

      so many things to turn off, may as well get into gpedit and whack them all out in a few hours and make a backup imagine of it so you don't have to tune windows again. yeah... why its not this way out of the box is nothing but total bullshit on Microsoft's parts, the auto updates aren't even the bad part.

    • @met9009
      @met9009 5 лет назад +4

      Check out Sledgehammer - Windows 10 update control do a search for it been working great for me. If only it was as simple as editing the registry to stop the updates. I have been on 1703 for a long time now with nothing pushed. I am responsible for a handful of computers they are getting devious with the updates all the steps to manually stop them. I honestly wish more people knew about that program is has saved me a lot of headaches. I could go on with all the problems with the updates.

  • @knightwolf3511
    @knightwolf3511 4 года назад +26

    so this explains why windows xp and 7 was so good Barnacules was helping out :P

  • @JediOfTheRepublic
    @JediOfTheRepublic 4 года назад +8

    This is an issue with the industry. My company got rid of testers because you know Agile.

  • @BassClefEly
    @BassClefEly 5 лет назад +11

    "Who uses optical media nowadays?"
    Funnily enough, I was just installing a Blu-ray Drive into my PC while listening to this video.

    • @pdraggy
      @pdraggy 5 лет назад

      Optical media, sound cards, flight sticks and trackballs! Yep it's still the 90s up in here :x

    • @BassClefEly
      @BassClefEly 5 лет назад

      @@pdraggy I also have a trackball mouse!

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад

      Now I feel bad man, but I'll probably install from optical media in my Windows reinstall video coming up.

    • @BassClefEly
      @BassClefEly 5 лет назад

      @@Barnacules Nah, don't feel bad, Jerry. Great video, by the way!

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 5 лет назад +1

      @@pdraggy bought a MS Sidewinder FFB2 for 30€ a month ago. Almost 20 years old and still works on Win10 which is a complete miracle.

  • @keyboard_g
    @keyboard_g 4 года назад +9

    I’ve seen multiple times where huge Win10 issues were reported for months from insider builds and went completely ignored.

  • @BlackGurkha
    @BlackGurkha 4 года назад +4

    Great video! I used to work in Test at MIcrosoft for 15 years. Toward the end, the topic of test and quality became essentially verboten. Lots of people fleeing anything to do with Test and teams rebranded from “test” to “quality” and eventually dropped “quality lol moniker all together as it was perceived as the short bus of engineering.
    A lot of the thinking became flawed where the goals became the automation test report and not the quality. It’s like going in for a blood test and declaring yourself healthy because the results are good whilst the doctor did not order a hepatitis screen.

  • @YOUTUBEISRANBYRETARDS
    @YOUTUBEISRANBYRETARDS 4 года назад +63

    I gave up on windows and went to linux.

    • @Metal-Possum
      @Metal-Possum 4 года назад +5

      Cool story bro. How can you tell somebody is a Linux user? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

    • @YOUTUBEISRANBYRETARDS
      @YOUTUBEISRANBYRETARDS 4 года назад +8

      @@Metal-Possum How can you tell a slave to Bill Gates and Microspy? They attack Linux users.

    • @ellisargamer9248
      @ellisargamer9248 4 года назад +7

      The day my steam library can run on Linux or something not owned by Apple I'll gladly ditch windows, assuming whatever that is also has good software for various other tasks as well.

    • @dappermuis5002
      @dappermuis5002 4 года назад +3

      Me too. Despite the steep learning curve it has been well worth it. 10 from day one sucked for me and I seemed to be one of those they to keep pushing windows to first. I went back to 8.1 at first, till a few years later, my hardware would only work on 10. But after a year of major issues, including files been deleted. I had had enough. By then Linux had gotten to the point that it was work able. Where as 2 years before when I had poked at it and given up due to graphic card issues. It now worked :-) Linux has improved in leaps and bounds in the last few years.
      I'm still learning 6 months later some of the basics. But the first month was the hardest for me. I'm not exactly an expert at computers. But I'm not clueless either. Know just enough for it to be dangerous, lol. Uncle Google has been a great help in solving issues. Help on line has become much more user friendly than it used to be. I don't feel like need a couple of degrees behind my name just to figure out how to get the computer to obey me anymore.
      For me Linux mint has been the easiest of the major distributions of Linux to work with. It is very windows like and extremely stable. I still haven't crashed it. Used the super easy timeshift (restore point) to fix any minor issues I may have caused while poking at it, before throwing something else at it.

    • @thebigbadnerd4622
      @thebigbadnerd4622 4 года назад +3

      @@ellisargamer9248 I am trying to make the switch to linux, but that was my problem too. Steam made an app called proton which pretty much enables most of its library on linux

  • @loukask.9111
    @loukask.9111 5 лет назад +146

    Vid about clonezilla would be dope!

    • @Noksus
      @Noksus 5 лет назад +2

      I'm interested as well!

    • @jackoneill84
      @jackoneill84 5 лет назад +2

      Yes please!

    • @shalipe
      @shalipe 5 лет назад +1

      Yessss

    • @Al3xTrucho20
      @Al3xTrucho20 5 лет назад +1

      Yep I would like this as well.

    • @aphixe
      @aphixe 5 лет назад

      Please video on clonezilla. I tried once and well didn't get that far

  • @mix3k818
    @mix3k818 5 лет назад +119

    Windows 10 is partially built with 30 year old code from MS DOS days. Of course such a complex system would age badly in the modern era.

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +63

      There is truth to this but VERY little of the original code remains since it had to be updated to support 32bit and 64bit platforms.

    • @Dougie085
      @Dougie085 5 лет назад

      @@Barnacules Aren't they dropping 32bit support soon? Thought I saw that somewhere....maybe that was android or something.

    • @NickyNiclas
      @NickyNiclas 5 лет назад +29

      This is like saying the Linux kernel doesn't have ancient remnants, which it absolutely does have. This is true for all old OSes

    • @mix3k818
      @mix3k818 5 лет назад

      NickyNiclas Hm. That's also true.

    • @jedude
      @jedude 5 лет назад +3

      @@Dougie085 Ubuntu almost dropped 32 bit support and OSX did drop it

  • @emilyp2580
    @emilyp2580 4 года назад +4

    Very interesting! I love hearing this from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. There’s mountains of incorrect tech information out there, I get very annoyed of all the bad advice and speculation that goes on. I see hundreds of computers every month and have been able to piece a lot of this together already, but you filled in all the gaps! I do wish they would get it together and reassemble the testing team because there is so much good with what they are doing, but that means nothing when your computer doesn’t work! Anyway, great content, thank you!

  • @JimAllen-Persona
    @JimAllen-Persona 4 года назад +8

    You just earned a sub. I’ve been in IT since 3.1 and you’re 100% right. Software testing is almost dead, unit and integration testing is too expensive and the companies love automated tools. It’s a cost center and statically, the quants say 98% reliability with a .05 CI minimizes cost so that’s what we’ll go for. I understand that the code base is millions of lines and I had heard that they’re selectively re-writing it.. bugs are inevitable. I can understand that. But seriously, could you really imagine any software manufacturer asking the customer for a full core dump? Lawyers would never allow that.. “it implies our product is not fit for service”. BTW .. got sick of 30 years of Windows problems in 2014 and went to Mac. Different set of problems there. I agree, I want MS to get better.. I was hoping to go back to them at some point in time.. especially once the code base re-write is done. I was hoping the Linux kernel would help but it doesn’t seem to be.

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  4 года назад +1

      Welcome aboard!

    • @JimAllen-Persona
      @JimAllen-Persona 4 года назад +1

      SinistaN To an extent... but keep in mind unit testing is only as good as the specs and the testing rules the developer is provided. If the developer is told to return a number and not told the rules, and doesn’t think to ask, an integer and a real both meet the spec, especially if the package can be overloaded and there are multiple constructor methods. Integration testing is the bitch... and that takes time. No one wants to take the time to write good specs any more but are quick to blame the developer for taking the fastest route.... especially if you have a dick of a PM that minimizes the analyst role and wants it done yesterday.

  • @tnbspotter5360
    @tnbspotter5360 4 года назад +35

    Thank you for selling me linux.

  • @thunderfan77
    @thunderfan77 5 лет назад +86

    I watched this video while taking a full dump. What a coincidence! 💩💩

    • @kokorobertco
      @kokorobertco 5 лет назад +23

      Send it to Microsoft.

    • @juddcarey
      @juddcarey 5 лет назад +3

      Taking a mini dump right now...

    • @Dohpamine_Design
      @Dohpamine_Design 5 лет назад

      broo im eatingg

    • @dbss206
      @dbss206 5 лет назад

      16 mins to take a full dump?!!

    • @Justfun-xx6xe
      @Justfun-xx6xe 5 лет назад +3

      Hearing the words Windows 10 and Microsoft increases bowel movement in any human .

  • @jamalahmed3396
    @jamalahmed3396 4 года назад +37

    When i saw EX-EMPLOYEE i was expecting to see a linux OS on your screen, but oops!

    • @AniMerrill
      @AniMerrill 4 года назад +5

      That's immediately what jumped out to me. It's even Windows 10, like even old Microsoft holdouts at least are clinging to 7 or even still XP if they're gonna bitch about 10 for a quarter of an hour. Hell, I would have even accepted a Mac convert.
      Like if you hate Microsoft *that much* then at least dual boot Linux for everything but that one or two programs that won't run under WINE.

    • @nullcarry6893
      @nullcarry6893 4 года назад +10

      Also note that he is running a heavily modified version of windows 10 that has everything disabled that is a privacy nightmare.

    • @NphiniT
      @NphiniT 4 года назад +4

      @@AniMerrill He doesn't hate Microsoft! He's explained it in one of his videos. There good reasons to use Microsoft once you can get around their some of their privacy nightmare which he shows how to do. If you won't accept him then get outta here. Hating Microsoft bcos they fired him is actually what would be pathetic!!

    • @jamalahmed3396
      @jamalahmed3396 4 года назад

      @@NphiniT Asalaam aleikum brother in iman, i dont hate the guy nor microsoft,i was just talking out my mind.

    • @NphiniT
      @NphiniT 4 года назад +1

      @@jamalahmed3396 Wa alaikum Salaam! Okay that's fine. There is a video on his channel where he explains his time at Microsoft, and his dismissal. He mentions that he stayed with Windows mainly because he is a gamer and most of the games he plays work seamlessly on Windows (among other reasons)

  • @MikePatterson8831
    @MikePatterson8831 4 года назад +5

    I miss Windows 7 :(

  • @Alex-ii5pm
    @Alex-ii5pm 5 лет назад +19

    Windows 10 has forced me to learn/install linux and i found it to be more efficient from ram to cpu usage without the built in spyware (cortana) and bloatware such as candy crush which seems to keep reinstalling after every update in windows????🤯 . I only use windows for some applications that dont work right in linux yet, thanks Microsoft for migrating me to a better operating system 👍👍👍

    • @catsbyondrepair
      @catsbyondrepair 5 лет назад

      Candy crush don't reinstall it's self. it doesn't come with the os.

    • @CRTp-xp1sr
      @CRTp-xp1sr 5 лет назад +4

      It does come with win 10

  • @victorjohnson7512
    @victorjohnson7512 5 лет назад +122

    I swiched to linux, Microsoft can't hurt me anymore...

    • @ShivamJha00
      @ShivamJha00 5 лет назад +3

      I'm about to do that but my fucking laptop won't detect the bootable usb drive of Arch Linux :v

    • @orbitalair2103
      @orbitalair2103 5 лет назад

      @@ShivamJha00 my old, like old laptops, have a boot keypress, like F9 to choose the boot device, from there I could choose usb. but it was not automatic.

    • @SirWussiePants
      @SirWussiePants 5 лет назад +6

      Have fun trying to get devices, sound and software. I use linux for specific purposes, but unless all you do is surf the web you are severely limited by the OS and have more issues to deal with on linux than windows.

    • @mikkelbreiler3846
      @mikkelbreiler3846 5 лет назад +5

      ​@@ShivamJha00 in that case try another currently maintained distro, remember with Linux you have a choice. But Arch is one of the almost-down-to-the-bare-metal distros and has an adoption curve steeper than Everest.

    • @Patchuchan
      @Patchuchan 5 лет назад +6

      @@ShivamJha00 Try Mint instead.

  • @schmudej85
    @schmudej85 4 года назад +4

    The irony of your statement about lack of real hardware testing is that these bugs still happen all over the place on Microsoft’s own Surface line of devices. In fact, I’ve seen bugs on Surface devices that I’ve never seen anywhere else. One would think they would, at the very least, do genuine testing on their own bloody hardware. Nope, we get to be the beta testers for that too. This is why a lot of people are annoyed.

  • @lugodoc
    @lugodoc 4 года назад +1

    In 1999 I worked for Phillips in the UK, writing software for hybrid CD writers / DVD readers to slot into tower PCs. A brand new feature was the ability for buyers to download software updates for the hybrids off the Phillips site and onto the hybrid's onboard OS at home after purchase. We were also told that the software we were writing didn't have to be perfect when we shipped the hybrids because we now could just keep on ironing out the bugs after sale and the customer could install the updates himself. At the time I remember thinking that we were selling this as a feature, but it was really just an excuse to ship unfinished products and make the customer fix our bugs on their own time.

  • @tamerlansoziev3945
    @tamerlansoziev3945 5 лет назад +32

    Love your content Jerry! Keep it up!!!

  • @OreoGamingGeek
    @OreoGamingGeek 5 лет назад +10

    So in this case, you're saying that there's no reason to pay for Windows? I mean, if we're effectively beta-testers, there's no reason to pay for that "privilege"...

  • @mindfreak1666
    @mindfreak1666 4 года назад +2

    really fantastic video, thank you so much for the informative art piece. I am a sysadmin myself and have always wondered how microsoft can release such things to production. I have heard rumors that they fired the whole testing department and I didn't believe it, but now I got my answers. It is really time for rethink of their testing environment, I am so tired of being so cautious every time we have to do updates and and build upgrades we find bug after bug and incompatabilities we have to manually fix.

  • @TheCocoaDaddy
    @TheCocoaDaddy 4 года назад +3

    Great video! I like your idea of displaying a dialog box asking the user to send the full dump, but I don't think that's the best approach. Ubuntu Linux displays a dialog window, when some application crashes, and will ask the user if it's ok for the *system* to send diagnostic information for analysis. End users won't know how to deal with a huge dump, but if the user is asked if it's ok for the system to send the dump, the user won't be tasked with sending it *and* the dump gets sent to Microsoft for analysis. Thanks for posting this video! :)

    • @ibizenco
      @ibizenco 4 года назад

      Linux programs crash? O.o

  • @CookyMonzta
    @CookyMonzta 5 лет назад +26

    😮 The very second you mentioned the M$ testing team getting laid off pretty much explained why Win10 has been coming up with an orgy of bugs...
    ...Fortunately, both of my ASUS laptops (one of which I'm selling to a recycler) haven't been dicked or bricked by Build 1903... ☺️
    ...Yet. 🤔

  • @YouPlantTube
    @YouPlantTube 5 лет назад +142

    I take a full dump every day, I'll be willing to sell it to Microsoft for a reasonable price!

    • @TimmiejaneCarter
      @TimmiejaneCarter 4 года назад +10

      Don’t sell it, lease it to them...with costly future expansions. ;P

    • @dadillen5902
      @dadillen5902 4 года назад +5

      Do you charge by the ton, cubic foot or number of 🥜.

    • @rangerdoc1029
      @rangerdoc1029 4 года назад +2

      With regular updates

    • @edinfific2576
      @edinfific2576 4 года назад +1

      @@rangerdoc1029 As long as he's regular. 😁

    • @edinfific2576
      @edinfific2576 4 года назад +2

      You want to give Microsoft your form of Windows 10? 😁

  • @JackRusselMan
    @JackRusselMan 4 года назад +6

    I was a windows insider on my dell and it messed it up so many times that I finally decided I didn't want to be a part of it.

  • @TheHaters112
    @TheHaters112 4 года назад +21

    Microsoft: We develop Windows on Macs now.

    • @CanadianBullFrog
      @CanadianBullFrog 4 года назад +1

      Really?

    • @TheHaters112
      @TheHaters112 4 года назад +5

      @@CanadianBullFrog Explains how they can develop Windows with so many bugs without encountering bugs on their development machines.
      Must be a pain to update Windows 10 for Devs at MS but nobody is doing jack about it.

    • @LancesArmorStriking
      @LancesArmorStriking 4 года назад

      @KMSMista
      Okay but then what will... like 99% of the world's hardware run on lol

  • @johnnyxp64
    @johnnyxp64 5 лет назад +41

    Windows 10 QA is NOT a a Rolla coaster ride... rolla coaster also tend to go UP and land ground level at the end. Microsoft's Windows 10 QA is just going down!

  • @czdaniel1
    @czdaniel1 5 лет назад +10

    I can't believe the UI limitations I run into constantly in Windows10

  • @kastimizillion
    @kastimizillion 3 года назад

    Great explanation of the good ol days when we used to catch bugs in-house, Jerry! Miss our hallway chats in 26!

  • @viveksawhney5691
    @viveksawhney5691 4 года назад +3

    It's funny because Microsoft used to essentially pay people to use Bing though Bing Rewards but they won't pay people for installing beta software, troubleshooting its issues, and sharing their data.

  • @nate_d376
    @nate_d376 5 лет назад +183

    TLDW: we're the beta testers...just like the game industry.

    • @MarkH10
      @MarkH10 5 лет назад +11

      I've been Beta testing PUBG for 2 years.

    • @BorgOvermind
      @BorgOvermind 5 лет назад +3

      At least gaming industry actually does relevant beta testing sometimes.

    • @nate_d376
      @nate_d376 5 лет назад +2

      @@BorgOvermind key word being 'sometimes'....

    • @CZ350tuner
      @CZ350tuner 5 лет назад +1

      1C have to hand their IL-2 games over to dedicated fan developer teams eventually to sort out all their unresolved bugs and upgrade older titles.

    • @BorgOvermind
      @BorgOvermind 5 лет назад +1

      @@nate_d376 Better than not at all, definitely.

  • @xDR1TeK
    @xDR1TeK 4 года назад +11

    I feel that when companies fire staff then then these companies don't recover from that decision, what they do is rebadge and rebrand shit to convince themselves that they did good.

  • @dotmatrix831
    @dotmatrix831 4 года назад +2

    Thankyou for explaining so well why at least one of my PC does not work after a big update. Every time!

  • @kamenriderblade2099
    @kamenriderblade2099 4 года назад +4

    I blame Satya Nadella for wanting to fire the SDET's.

  • @Alttabbins
    @Alttabbins 5 лет назад +11

    2 weeks and 3 videos? What a time to be alive. Keep it up I love these. I’m buying a shirt.

    • @Barnacules
      @Barnacules  5 лет назад +3

      Thank you so much! I feel like I'm earning it! 😁

  • @brego129
    @brego129 5 лет назад +6

    Hey Jerry, great video glad to see the vids again! Cheers!
    Edit: And yes a Clonezilla video would be great!

  • @ruirodtube
    @ruirodtube 4 года назад +116

    Here’s an easy way to crash Microsoft Windows: Switch it on. Use it.

    • @lindasue8719
      @lindasue8719 4 года назад +3

      Ruirodtube Nailed it.

    • @WilliamLDeRieuxIV
      @WilliamLDeRieuxIV 4 года назад +1

      You don't need to use Windows to make it crash......you just need to look/stare at it (and it will crash....[what is this thing looking at me....crashes, defenses deployed]).

  • @worldhello1234
    @worldhello1234 4 года назад +3

    0:58 Ach Barney, I still enjoy Kubuntu Linux 18.04 but your rants are priceless. 🤗

  • @fragalot
    @fragalot 5 лет назад +9

    I'd like to see a Clonezilla video, especially when trying to restore a backup after a catastrophic loss.

    • @fragalot
      @fragalot 4 года назад

      @Jon Doe RP isn't a backup, Using RP won't restore lost data. All it really does is remove updates.

    • @fragalot
      @fragalot 4 года назад

      @Jon Doe Right, I don't even bother with Windows Restore it just seems like a waste of space, since if you lose data or get a virus, it's not going to help you. If my PC gets really messed up from corrupt data, I just reinstall windows again.

  • @adamsmith1813
    @adamsmith1813 5 лет назад +5

    Who wants more codegasm videos? I do!! You're awesome dude.

  • @lewzero
    @lewzero 4 года назад +21

    I'm running "Insider" builds, and usually when I send in an issue, it actually gets fixed (yeah, amazing, I know). Now where I have problems is during upgrades Windows will decided to kinda destroy itself, and then roll itself back, which for some reason DOESN'T trigger sending Microsoft a problem has happened. It assumes since it rolled back and eventually starts up again, nothing is wrong. It really sucks because I have 4 computers, and the only one that runs Windows as a "main" operating system is the gaming machine, which sure AF has good enough hardware it should be supported 100%. The mission critical box is running Debian, the Internet mission critical box runs Ubuntu with Mate, and the programming box (well, laptop, I dunno if that's really a box) runs vanilla Ubuntu with Gnome. I've run countless distros of linux, hackintosh boxes, and Windows from 3.11 to bleeding edge, and Debian/Ubuntu has the reliability and compatibility that makes me so pissed off I PAID for Windows to not work anywhere near as well as something free. /end rant

    • @szirsp
      @szirsp 4 года назад +3

      So I need to buy 2 of the exact same HW and run insider build on one of them with same SW config so bugs are going to be fixed before it is released to my main box, therefore doubling my TCO... Brilliant!
      I should probably pray really hard as well (that the reported issues were actually fixed, cause I have read that some bugs weren't fixed that insiders had reported previously on forums )...

    • @ibizenco
      @ibizenco 4 года назад +1

      The issues you send back get fixed? That must be a bug.

  • @Vintaronica
    @Vintaronica 4 года назад +8

    414 Microsoft top level executives didn't like this.

    • @Angry-Lynx
      @Angry-Lynx 4 года назад +1

      I think their execs dont even know they have some divisions working on windows. Why would they bother when thy can swim in bitches on Bahamas lol ;

  • @Morgan423Z
    @Morgan423Z 5 лет назад +9

    I had to ditch Windows some time ago, a lot of these issues were driving me bananas. I'm happy over in Linux world now and outside of office computers, I doubt I'll ever be back.

  • @dexternepo
    @dexternepo 5 лет назад +15

    Windows 7 was my last favourite Windows and I do not like the flat designs of Windows 8 and 10. I switched to Linux a long time back and I am loving the stability.

    • @marcusstarman1849
      @marcusstarman1849 4 года назад +5

      W7 was awesome. I like some features of W10 but I *hate* the flat ugly icon look and they way they can't make up their minds about Control Panel.

    • @KingJellyfishII
      @KingJellyfishII 4 года назад +3

      Hello fellow penguin.

    • @dexternepo
      @dexternepo 4 года назад +1

      @@KingJellyfishII Hello!!!! :)

    • @alexojeda9048
      @alexojeda9048 4 года назад

      So can you run PLEX on it?

    • @dexternepo
      @dexternepo 4 года назад

      @@alexojeda9048 You mean PLEX as in the media server?

  • @f00d15600d
    @f00d15600d 4 года назад +1

    Hey Jerry,
    Great video and brought back some fond memories ( Windows 8.1) until they laid me off in 2014 along with most of the Test organization. Part of my ownership was Clean Install, OEM Tools (dism, WinPE, etc.), Upgrade, Servicing, Licensing, etc. I was super passionate about all my components and so was everyone on my team. Dog-fooding, Install fairs. Test labs, Test-automation with the latest hardware from the OEM's were all standard processes that were eventually phased out soon after the layoffs. As you mentioned, not having the exact hardware/environment makes it virtually impossible to replicate the issue and data loss which was something we made sure never happened seems to be a frequent occurrence. Many of my old team members are still there doing excellent work but the "new" way of doing things limits their ability to perform at the level like we did pre-2014. I hear there are Test teams re-forming at Microsoft within some-organizations but they have a long way to go.

  • @SeraphinaPyle
    @SeraphinaPyle 4 года назад +1

    Just found your channel today, great video dude! :) Nice to learn about WHY Win 10 is so buggy. I was only ever able to get earlier builds of it to install on my modern hardware, but even when 10 installed, I couldn't soft reset my system, it would boot me into a BSOD unless I hard reset...so I'm sticking with 7 for now. Funny how people have been saying that the video game industry has started using us consumers as free beta testers. Looks like software companies in general might be taking this approach more.

  • @harbinger200
    @harbinger200 5 лет назад +82

    Multi billion $ behemoth with unlimited money and power..... but the poor thing needs your free work to survive. Poor Microsoft, they just have eneugh money to buy Mars from God. Help them, they may not eat today!

  • @oogioboogie
    @oogioboogie 5 лет назад +7

    So, MS just roll out not so thoroughly tested, flawed product and instead using their customer as a free test-lab. Thank goodness MS doesn't make cars, imagine the amount of lawsuits that would be.

  • @Windows-8.1
    @Windows-8.1 2 года назад +2

    unambiguous subscription! this is the best windows channel! I want to ask you what Windows distributions do you have? I decided to collect the entire "collection" of Windows))
    I do not have an operating system below Windows 2000.
    I would be very glad for your help in assembling this collection!) I will definitely share the final result!

  • @DaRyteJuan
    @DaRyteJuan 4 года назад +5

    I’m giving Windows Server 2019 a whirl. I have 2 Dell Precision 6800s. One of them is running Win 7 and the other one Win Server 2019. I believe using Server prevents MSFT from both spying and forcing unwanted updates.
    Gotta say that Win 7 is a beast. With Win XP you had to do a clean install every couple of years. With 7 Pro it was first installed on my Dell Precison 6500 which I got in 2009 or 2010. Then in 2013 Dell gave me a 6800 because they didn’t have a 10 cent part for the 6500. So I never did a clean install then. I just swapped out the drives. Eventually for all the drivers going and never did an install. That’s just effing amazing.
    Satya Nadella is the Devil.

  • @ValcortYT
    @ValcortYT 5 лет назад +23

    HELL YEAH MORE BARNACULES! LOVING THESE REGULAR VIDEOS JERRY

  •  5 лет назад +36

    I am shocked! Microsoft used to actually test the software?
    Unbelievable....

    • @3polygons
      @3polygons 5 лет назад +7

      Win 7 was incredibly stable if we compare with 10 now, and way, way less gossip (altho disabling really cortana and patching other things, it ain't that bad...). Here's still rocking one of those... until January, surely, end of w7 extended support. Dunno what I'll do then... can't use Linux, even while I *LOVE* it, professional software for graphics ain't running there, apart from Blender(should I say market-standard professional software, as Blender and Krita are better in some aspects than their counter parts. But for freelancing or at the job, sadly is still all about the standard, unlimited thingy. Specially sensational is Blender, it covers all my freaking 3D projects needs and more. And I do pretty advanced stuff, is not a hobby...). Wine is no solution, as a bunch of what I use doesn't run on Wine, usually not this tool's fault, but the usual protectionism of the market standard pro apps, which make it non compatible, I suspect that on purpose. And those who run, often find performance probs in comparison to run on Windows native. That's being improved, tho, but for now in my pro work, nothing to do there.

    • @CheapBastard1988
      @CheapBastard1988 5 лет назад +2

      @@3polygons Get a system with many processing cores and a second graphics card. Then run Linux natively for everything you can use it for and do the rest in VM's. Even MacOS can be run in a VM these days and for Windows it's a minor thing. Just beware of code 43 if you use an Nvidia card that isn't a Quadro. But there are workarounds for this problem.

    • @3polygons
      @3polygons 5 лет назад

      @@CheapBastard1988 That's a very good advice, I'll keep it in mind for when the time comes, will study the situation and multiple factors, then.

    •  5 лет назад

      @@3polygons Last time I had Windows running on my computer it froze while defraging.
      But that was in the late 90s...
      I admit I did not have any data recovery experience back then but I did swear to never again have such shift happen on my pc.
      Now as a Gnu/OSS only user I am perfectly fine to have some alpha and beta and RC* software running and I don't refrain from filling bug reports, patching and so on. I even earned a paycheck as a tester for a few years when I worked for an Austrian company.
      But having the front desk employee, or the the chief accountant have to deal with this s*** it is simply unacceptable period.
      Whilst working at another company, I slowly I managed to to migrate most office computers to Linux based systems. Saved on costs by using refurbished computers and having decent if not excellent up times, not to mention serious corporation-grade security and and remote availability. Nothing my coleagues needed to do on those computers couldn't be done after switching. Even things that were never meant for networking were networked. And I started to have some peace, finally. The printing was just working, the computers were just running and usable and responsive.
      Then that company was bought buy another which imposed Windows systems installed and maintained by why their IT department (MS partners) and I cannot forget those days when the chief accountant was looking at her computer while Windows7 :was updating for the last 6 hours and she had to make the salaries. And they were running like pure crap. Laggy, unresponsive, they were seing each other in the network only on _special_ ocasions, not even mentioning network printing.
      And the MS bois were spending hours on those....Either remote or local, hours upon hours and the situation kept saming.
      And all I could do was to look at computers that were previously working fine and now now they are updating 8 hours a day followed by another few hours of reverting.
      They gave me the admin like two months before I quitted.

    • @blevenzon
      @blevenzon 5 лет назад

      Until you can write a better OS that has to work on large number of hardware, stop knocking it.

  • @melvinch
    @melvinch 4 года назад +20

    Windows 10 still has problems reading USB devices, especially activity trackers. The connection will work one moment and stop working the next time.

    • @rocca717
      @rocca717 4 года назад +1

      yep, it happens to my midi keyboard

    • @Fbalika
      @Fbalika 4 года назад

      just had a blue screen due to this the other day, on a less than 1 year old install

  • @theclearsounds3911
    @theclearsounds3911 4 года назад +10

    This guy finally explained in great detail why Windows XP is the last good OS that Microsoft ever put out. And even XP has a lot of bugs!

    • @Ocudavidimvideooo
      @Ocudavidimvideooo 4 года назад +5

      Forgetting Windows 7?

    • @willia3r
      @willia3r 2 года назад

      @@Ocudavidimvideooo so forgotten that Windows 7 might was be a bad turd that you $h!tted out ten years ago😖

  • @Leiaza
    @Leiaza 4 года назад +7

    Thank u 1903 has been driving me crazy to the point I've cried yes I know it's sad a grown person crying but needed the computer to do work stuff and window updates that just don't wanna fucking work is just painful

  • @kianojohnson4886
    @kianojohnson4886 5 лет назад +7

    Thank you for the insight of why Windows 10 has been notoriously buggy for many users. Appreciate it.

    • @kianojohnson4886
      @kianojohnson4886 4 года назад

      @Jon Doe I've been fortunate not to have issues with their new updates. But I did run into a problem that may have been the result of not allowing it to shut down properly. I fixed it with a clean install then proceeded to update to current.
      There was a time I tinkered with Linux but it wasn't for me. I recognize the benefits of using it over Windows, however. Thank you for the reminder an alternative exists should I feel the need to move on from Windows.

    • @kianojohnson4886
      @kianojohnson4886 4 года назад

      @Jon DoeI agree

  • @PhoebusG
    @PhoebusG 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for another quality segment, rock on Barnacules! :)

  • @mdmsr2000
    @mdmsr2000 4 года назад +1

    I'm a Microsoft insider. I'm retired. The reward thing for helping to catch a bug reminds me of something that happened to me. I used to fix polaroid cameras. They had a reward for making things better. I recommended a modification. They rejected it then "separately", they came up with the same concept and put it in production. Yeah right.

  • @lehast
    @lehast 5 лет назад +11

    Totally agree!!! Great video and great points!

  • @lancelotxavier9084
    @lancelotxavier9084 5 лет назад +70

    It took Microsoft 3 years to fix a massive bug on touch screen keyboards on their own Surface products.
    It's still buggy, but at least usable.
    Microsoft's problem is extreme incompetence.
    Post a bug on Microsoft they don't want to deal with or acknowledge and the admin will ban your account and delete the post.
    Great thing about Linux is that nothing is covered up, one can fix the code on our own and there is a community that shares good values.
    Even Apple will read every post and eventually fix the bug and not in years but months.
    Only reason MS is not bankrupt is because ITs love overtime.

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 5 лет назад +2

      You should look at the state of Google's ChromeOS, which is the only realistic competitor to Windows on desktops and notebooks.
      Same thing as Windows 10, essentially. And they don't even have to deal with weird hardware combinations.

    • @Diode5
      @Diode5 5 лет назад +11

      As a Surface Pro 4 owner, Microsoft really failed doing the Apple thing where producing the hardware and software should lead to optimal results. With that said, I work with hundreds of Mac's in the enterprise space and quite simply they really suck when need to make them conform to configuration required in enterprises, Apple products want to be used in an Apple way, and when you want a Mac to do something else it always tries to bite you. Windows to this day still is the big fleet OS where it will typically do what you ask of it.

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 5 лет назад +12

      @@NJ-wb1cz Why should one choose closed-source Google rubbish when one could easily install something like Linux Mint?

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 4 года назад

      @@keiganthetennessean1796 Yep. The problem is that it uses a mobile processor of the ARM architecture, which means that it cannot run x86 binaries of any type (whereas you can jerryrig an exe to run on Linux, for example, as it is still an x86 file)

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 4 года назад

      @@keiganthetennessean1796 Lol that was by chance!

  • @boodro2122
    @boodro2122 4 года назад +8

    When I was growing up, XP worked so well and was simple to use.

    • @aretard7995
      @aretard7995 4 года назад +4

      BOODRO WEBB it still does.

    • @boodro2122
      @boodro2122 4 года назад +1

      @@aretard7995 Oh, that's cool.

    • @brsubwayfc
      @brsubwayfc 4 года назад +3

      It was my fav, followed by 7.

    • @frostbite1991
      @frostbite1991 4 года назад +5

      XP was great when you got over the fact it was the most susceptible to viruses lol.

    • @boodro2122
      @boodro2122 4 года назад

      @@frostbite1991 I wasn't that savvy about computers, but I do remember my tech friend coming over to fix it several times.

  • @TimmyJoGiven
    @TimmyJoGiven 4 года назад +1

    This was amazing, and I like your delivery. Keep up the good work. Very informative, helpful, and entertaining to boot.

  • @SaurabhSharma2804
    @SaurabhSharma2804 4 года назад +2

    There are Linux Distributions that are released by small teams and are very stable. I think Microsoft has a technical debt issue too. If this OS needs 8000 people to test properly, that is an issue in itself. SteamPlay works well today for a lot of Windows games. There are very few people that would go back to windows if they use a mainstream Linux distribution for even a week.

    • @SaurabhSharma2804
      @SaurabhSharma2804 4 года назад

      @Mike100 A lot of hardware manufacturers go out of their way to not support Linux. Drivers are written into linux OS many times. Windows doesn't even have to do that since the hardware manufacturer release the drivers too. Inspite of that, at this point of time, only fringe hardware gives trouble on linux. And since the prevalent technology has become Open source, a lot of developers are moving to Linux. And so Hardware support has improved.

    • @SaurabhSharma2804
      @SaurabhSharma2804 4 года назад

      @Mike100 And I did mention mainstream distributions.

  • @zoommair
    @zoommair 5 лет назад +3

    "Why does Microsoft Windows 10 have so many bugs?" Same reason Windows 8 had so many bugs, same reason Windows 7 had so many bugs, same reason Vista, ME, 2000, 98SE, 95, 3.1 had so many bugs.... It's Windows. Switched to Linux/Ubuntu for a few years now, and never looking back. Wish I did it way back in the 90's.

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher 4 года назад +6

    Jan 25, 2020, I'm still using Windows 7 and am getting all my data I want to keep out onto a flash drive and if I have to learn something new its going to be Linux Mint.

    • @SebastiaanCommissaris
      @SebastiaanCommissaris 4 года назад +1

      you will like linux mint.. no real learning required to start using it, unless you want to install stuff that isn't readily available through the "package explorer" which is basically a linux store similar to how you have the app stores for your cell phone...
      When it comes to gaming, linux is making great improvements.. but it still has a ways to go in terms of "software development support" as all the games are in essence written for windows, as for obvious reasons, it's going to sell a lot better on the windows platform than the linux platform, just due to the number of users.

    • @babybirdhome
      @babybirdhome 4 года назад +1

      Sebastiaan Commissaris Well that and the fact that windows users are accustomed to paying for things.

  • @GAnimeRO
    @GAnimeRO 4 года назад +24

    "Vista hero award", honestly an award for that OS I would be too ashamed to show around.
    Windows 7, XP, 2000, 98/95, sure, but Vista. Might as well put a shoe on your head.

    • @MilesPrower1992
      @MilesPrower1992 4 года назад +8

      Dont rip on Vista too hard, remember Windows 8?

    • @ibizenco
      @ibizenco 4 года назад

      It is my experience that Windows Vista AND Windows ME were the best (alright... "least bad") Windows versions. No kidding.