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My current issue is i see you guys constantly having issues, editing files etc.

Is it not stable?

Can you not set it up and then not have ongoing issues?

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[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

IMO and maybe a wrong one, issues tend to happen for four reasons:

  • incompatible hardware
  • hardware failure
  • update breaks everything
  • I wanna do a cool thing from the internet

I'll say that the third one is very rarely occurring in Mint, and I wouldn't say it's not happening in Windows.

The first one is in my experience the most common, though less frequent than it was some time ago.

The last one is the reason you see many posts around here :)