who the fuck think it’s a good idea to push bios update via windows update?, it can’t even get video driver update right. Before you flaming me for using microslop windows this is my brother laptop not mine
If your network or sound stops working after an update, you’re either Doing It Wrong or you just have trash hardware.
The worst part about Windows Update is when it functions as intended. They’re going to re-install Edge, turn OneDrive back on, and shove Copilot into Explorer, Notepad, and Paint.
This is all for your security.
Wouldn’t want you to go 5 minutes thinking on your own, think of the horrors you could come up with. Better start your 5pm copilot therapy session early today.
I don’t think I had a linux distro break audio/video/network after an update in 10+ years. Maybe I’ve just been lucky? That said I’ve had countless issues with work machines after Microsoft updates
Dude wtf 😭😭
Genuinely forgot how annoying windows update is…
Luckily this time it didn’t fry the bios chip, but I wasted 2 hours fucking around and waiting for dell diagnostic tool to complete
“This time???” 😭
I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but what’s the problem?
I see a screenshot of Dell diagnostics running fine
Dell BIOS updates come with a checksum to prevent corruption issues, whether it’s installed via Dell’s software, Microsoft Updates or Linux fwupd… I don’t think I’ve had a corruption in ~20 years of using Dell equipment.
I have seen settings reset to defaults before - which was mentioned in the release notes…
Any mainstream Linux distro can update your firmware out of the box as well. I have never run into an issue with Fedora updating mine. Kinda think of it, I don’t really use Windows much anymore but I don’t recall any issues with Windows updating firmware either. Maybe I have been lucky.
Linux also pushes BIOS updates via fwupd, just for your information.
It’s also happening in Linux through fwupd.
Is mainstream distros shipped it by default? cuz I never heard or have it installed
Yeah I get bios updates through fedora on my framework
ubuntu ships it by default iirc. it’s pretty mainstream alright.
Fedora also does iirc? I remember seeing “firmware update” on gnome software
It does, but anecdotally it doesn’t seem super reliable. Did a full system update without knowing it was a thing and only found out when it went into BIOS and immediately said “update failed”. Luckily seemed like just a checksum or some other sanity check failing, but I’m guessing I got the wrong binary for my hardware.
