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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 45 points 1 day ago (10 children)

God damn, after ~20 years of being off Windows reading about problem after problem on each and every update is exhausting.

How do you all (Windows users) deal with this shit?

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

This is the first Windows update that has significantly altered how my daily driver laptop works (read: for the worse).

It's too inconvenient to use a Windows computer anymore. I'm switching to Linux

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 14 hours ago

By not using newest microsoft stuff. I'm always few years late to their next windows.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Wait 3 weeks before applying updates and let other people be the guinea pigs. It's usually enough time for things like this to be caught and withdrawn by MS.

[–] HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Haven’t updated to windows 11 yet and probably won’t. Just gonna wait until I can afford a new PC then learn how to install Linux

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's nothing to learn. Mint and Fedora were click click done.

[–] HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ya I’ve heard this before! I’ve also heard there is still a lot of problem solving to learn for maintenance and some problems that often arise. But haven’t taken the time yet to familiarize myself with it.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Most people don't have this issue. You are only reading about the less than 1%. Per usual, everything posted her is overblown and the linux trolls feed on it.

[–] wholeofthemoon@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Because I haven't had these issues in 20+ years? 🤡

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've never had an issue of this gravity on Windows. I use Linux and it has its issues as well. Stability is not why I use Linux lmao

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

as far as I know, Debian is the "gold standard" for stable linux to the point of being one of the most famous distros used on servers as well.

Exceptions are using unstable/testing versions of debian or accounting for an windows program to just work perfectly under wine (but that is a microsoft-linux integration which MS almost always wants to not happen)

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 5 points 8 hours ago

Perhaps not stability, but certainly the ability to understand a problem and fix things is why I use Linux. On Windows or MacOS you just get "Oops, something unexpected happened", or if youre lucky "Error -2847".

On linux you can read the journalctl or have a poke in /var/log/ and actually find an answer that's more helpful than "reinstall the operating system / program"

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Stability is why I use an atomic distro

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You use the wrong linux then.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No, they all have their issues. That is the very definition of linux.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I usually restart my gentoo machines when I move or once every couple of years when I update them. Debian stable is pretty similar.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same way as I do on Linux. There was a post a few weeks back about an Arch update breaking vlc if you don't manually install a new optional dependency after an update split the package.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Arch has always broke. Arch will always break.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Whatever doesn’t break makes us stronger (at using the Archwiki)

Crying, sniffling, more crying, over eating, crying some more, and existential dread. Then I go to work and pretend it will just magical go away, become delusional, go home, and start the process all over again.

I might need therapy.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

bashing the executable

three instances of Battlefield 6 load up

"ss-seethe, linux-turds!!"

gpu explodes from poor driver implementation

browser renames itself