Post #1434072
2026-02-17 00:46 UTC
@kirb Not like the current implementation doesn't also have problems. I invite you to try doing Store updates on a brand-new, out-of-box copy of Windows 11 on a low-spec machine on poor Internet some time. It'll chug for minutes just trying to figure out what it wants to do, and once it does finally start updating, woe betide you should you decide you want to postpone any of the specific updates – the buttons click, but they do nothing. It's my third favourite example of modern Windows UX rot (after Calculator taking multiple seconds to open on a cold boot, and... whatever's going on with Notepad these days).
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@kirb@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 03:14
@MrDOS (I totally missed this, sorry! Apparently I’m bad at notifications) Something to do with the modern packaging infrastructure is slow, that’s for sure. If they cared more they would be dealing with this ASAP, because it’s such an example of the platform being noncommittal to any of their ideas. Maybe it’ll improve with the recent push to improve on all the ways Windows 11 quality has regressed, but at this point it’s hard to trust them, I’ll believe it when I see it. As another fun one, a fresh install of Win11 23H2 just crashes when you use the Store, or winget, or double click an .appx/.msix. You need to wait some unknown amount of time for it to update App Installer in the background. 🤷♀️