First RCS now this, today has been wild

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    8 months ago

    For gamers-only maybe lmao

    E: and people willing to spend several hours a month wondering why their OS broke again

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      8 months ago

      If you don’t tinker like the usual Linux user your os won’t break more often than windows

            • Yeah people often forget the sheer amount of quality checks and testing that windows updates go through. Sure it might do annoying things like changing your default browser but it never truly breaks.

              There’s also the fact that Windows native antivirus is so good that installing antivirus software is actually a downgrade. On Linux meanwhile you gotta run third party antivirus.

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                8 months ago

                Windows updates break my clock… Idk about this claim that it doesn’t break stuff.

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                8 months ago

                In my experience windows just breaks as often. Depending on hardware and software used.

                Yes it might be better for windows 11 I haven’t run that yet. And windows 10 almost never broke either so it is maybe better now

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                  8 months ago

                  It literally almost never happens for windows yet Linux is generally most famous by this one thing

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                    8 months ago

                    It should not happen if you use debian, Ubuntu or Mint stable. As long you don’t do anything exotic it should not break, at not since 2018.

                    And if it breaks remember you compare free software made by volunteers (and paid employees from companies) with much less money and they still manage to compete with the multi billion dollar company Microsoft.

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      8 months ago

      If you stick to Ubuntu you usually don’t have that problem IMHO.

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      7 months ago

      Hmm. My partner’s Linux machine is perfectly stable and has been for a decade. I administer it for them, but that’s just running updates and distribution upgrades every now and then

      My server takes more effort, as distribution upgrades sometimes break stuff, for example the mailing list manager I have used for a long time became deprecated and was disabled on the recent LTS upgrade

      My laptop running Ubuntu from the factory is perfectly fine, I’ll probably make it less stable by moving it to Debian