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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

These are a lot of issues! I have had basically no issues for years. Certainly not bricking or breaking anything.

Windows has been worse for me (on the windows machines I support). Nvidia driver broke (black screen on all accelerated windows) and had to be repaired using a bit of powershell and a roll back tool. No auto fix from windows.

Windows update didn't complete correctly, hours trying to roll it back, the windows tools did nothing, including the repair tool.

Point is I see far more broken windows than linux at this point.

As for fixing linux? Keep your home and os seperate and its super easy. Try changing hardware on windows and watch the fun of breakage and licensing kick in!

Edit: I want to add: linux can break, sometimes in an update. But it seems like its the user actively doing something. Windows breaks, in bizarre ways usually due to an update. Particularly lately.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Point is I see far more broken windows than linux at this point.

    That could easily be because far more people use Windows though. It's a hit and a miss with Windows, on my work laptop it hasn't been very stable, yet my desktop has never had an issue with it and is running pretty flawlessly.

    Try changing hardware on windows and watch the fun of breakage and licensing kick in!

    I've repeatedly changed hardware on Windows and never had anything break really. Even going from an Nvidia card to an AMD one went without a hitch.

    linux can break, sometimes in an update. But it seems like its the user actively doing something.

    I guess this is kind of my point: the user being able to break the OS is an OS failure, not a user one. The OS should have prevented the user from doing something fatal in the first place. Windows isn't perfect in that regard but imo quite a bit stronger. That's what makes Linux more attractive to tinkerers at the moment, but it scares casual users off. I really want Linux desktops to improve on this so it's more attractive to casual users. Or a recovery tool, it'd be great if after making a change and ending up with boot failures Linux would automatically roll back the change. I know some systems have snapshots that you can roll back to but iirc you have to do that manually.

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