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Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by RicoElectrico on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:34PM (#46660001)
I'm pretty scared what userland piece of software will be re-written while ditching backwards compatibility and making the current body of support knowledge worthless. After all, we've replaced the display server (sort of), audio, init and service management, network commands (netplan) if not much more.

My bet would be on a rewrite of CUPS in Rust. Oh, your printer that worked for 20 years is now a useless brick? What a shame, at least now the printing subsystem is secure and blazing fast.

Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by steve1977 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:57PM (#46660220)
Not even Rust zealots want to touch printing ;)
Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by networkadmin on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:35PM (#46662795)
> My bet would be on a rewrite of CUPS in Rust.

Please, don't give them any ideas.

Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by shakna on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:34PM (#46663232)
Well, as Apple has basically abandoned CUPS, and not everyone uses the OpenPrinting fork, things in that space are getting "fun".
Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch by eagle2com on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:01AM (#46666418)
Please, printers have never worked, it's a side effect when they do.