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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I actually can't remember any time I've had a linux computer actually crash other than because of a hardware failure. I've had the buggy vulkan pre-release version of BeamNG crash my video driver but that's actually recoverable without a reboot if you have a way to get a shell remotely or if you have sysrq enabled and again that's using very much not release quality software.

Although to be fair I don't think crashes are a good way to measure how usable an operating system is for desktop users. I've also never had VMS or NetBSD crash

[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Linux crashing from VLC is why I discovered MPV (CTT had this same issue with VLC specifically in Linux). Linux also crashed from a native game (Bombermaaan), and mounting a drive that hadn't been shut down properly among other times, but these are crashes were where reasons can be specified and not be a possible result of hardware malfunction.

Windows automatically repaired the drive before mounting. -Some would say because of 'bloat'.

Although to be fair I don't think crashes are a good way to measure how usable an operating system is for desktop users.

Agree, and I'm tired of seeing anecdotes on it when I could give my own where Linux crashed 10x as much in one month as Windows in a decade for me, and me being able to specify reasons. There's also plenty of stability issues with Linux to be found online with a simple web search. When Windows Millenium was giving people headaches, I fixed it simply by removing the crappy software firewalls that were popular at the time. -I ran WinME for over 6 months of heavy gaming without shutdown with no problems -shutdown to upgrade hardware.

And we're not even getting into how 'stable' is a misused term among their community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You didn't know what you are talking about. Go learn how computers work and then you can talk.