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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[–] 119 points 1 year ago (9 children)

At work, the windows outage spooked management hard. They noticed that our small amout of Linux servers didn't go down. So now they are OK with us using Linux more. After many decades of Windows.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What Windows outage?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Maybe the CrowdStrike outage last year

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    That is was a Crowdstike issue not a Windows issue. They have borked Linux updates as well. Microsoft has had their far share of bad updates but none of them were outage level assuming companies properly tested updates.

    A lot of these large companies are terrible at multiple levels. It is great to pay premium dollar for junk.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That is was a Crowdstike issue not a Windows issue.

    From my understanding, it's true that CrowdStrike wrote the faulty code and submitted it to Microsoft. Microsoft shares blame in that they didn't properly vet and test the kernel-level patch CrowdStrike had submitted.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Not certain what others experienced, but in my company, a bad Windows Update knocked out most of our computers for a full day. It was so bad, you can see it in like monthly financial reports when it happened.

    It was one of the motivators for why my job dropped Microsoft.

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