Besides all of the officially known issues, when I tested 22H2 I discovered an undocumented task scheduler bug (
link) that renders the 22H2 build currently hosted on Microsoft's website too broken to be usable, if you do not install the Windows updates that were released later. The main problem is that many of us hardcore tweaking enthusiasts pause/disable/uninstall Windows update because it can install ads, bloat, resets tweaks to defaults, restores uninstalled components, and add new bugs as we've seen with 22H2.
Microsoft does not refresh their media creation tool or website with updated ISO builds, except for once per year, and so we are forced to wait until 23H2 releases to download that (if it isn't buggy) and stick with an older version like 21H2 in the meantime. Even then, Microsoft recently announced that 23H2 will not be made available for Windows 10, so all we can do is hope they still release an updated build at the end of this year, even though the version won't change.
I don't know how I want to address all of this yet, because I had already settled on just waiting for 23H2 to update the guides, but now that's uncertain. There's a lot of options available to address this 22H2 task scheduler bug, but I haven't worked through them and evaluated which approach is best, within the premise of an easy-to-use guide.
I'm open to suggestions on how to address this in the guide, but it has to be clean, simple, and easy for inexperienced users to follow, I don't want to have to write a bunch of extra steps, such as by having people use 22H2 and then doing Windows updates through NTLite because updates can cause problems, and I haven't seen anything about 22H2 that excites me. Plus, it's all too much for the masses to follow, the guide is long enough already and needs to be shortened, not made longer. If Microsoft would just fix their crap I could go update the guides.
To summarize, Microsoft is really screwing up this year:
- 22H2 on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 was too buggy to release and still has issues
- Microsoft is blocking people from downloading older Windows 10/11 versions right now
- Windows 10 will not get a 23H2 update (
link) which means newer builds may not be posted
- The new SecureBoot exploit (
link) will take months to address and will affect the future
- Older Windows (W7) are no longer an option because they can't run popular software now
- Windows 11 in my testing had lower performance in some areas and higher DPC latency
- Windows 11 is actively evolving which makes it buggier/unstable, and more work to tweak