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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

For gamers-only maybe lmao

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

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Explain that to my Ubuntu install that killed itself over a package dependency no longer existing in the repo.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As I said, not more often than windows

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A normal software installation never broke a Windows install in my life.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This comment is a prime example of a drowning man trying to pull up by the straw

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't follow... And that's not an actual expression

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  1. It was on ~~Ubuntu~~ Debian

  2. Is exactly what I'm trying to say.. this is why Linux will not be ever better unless it is an actual product that can have real money poured into it. Except they don't really "manage to compete". Unless you count 1vs99 as non-laughable competition. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to use something else but as of right now, nothing can really compare with stability and being "plug and play"

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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