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jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 months agoJust because you haven’t enabled it doesn’t mean it’s not available. If you want a modern operating system, that’s the “you must be this tall to ride this ride.”
ceiphas@feddit.de 9 months ago
You mean a massively patched windows 2000 with modern OS? Does Linux count, or BSD? How about macOS?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Linux if you’re prepared to support it entirely yourself and still have functional issues.
MacOS if you want to pay 3x the price for hardware that’s 1/2 as capable and has locked you out of modifications.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 9 months ago
What does this even mean? The most work caused in administering my company's IT comes from destructive patches from Microsoft. Just like a month ago they released a security patch that caused the domain controller to not reboot which is pretty much the worst thing you can run into aside outright malicious actors (not sure Microsoft doesn't count as one). So I had to "support" users by rolling back untested shit until a hotfix was released.
My private setup runs exclusively on Linux. Patches also sometimes cause trouble but it's just as infrequent and less destructive if it happens.
It's really not that different from an admin point of view but it's not Linux' business model to snoop on or extort you.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Two days ago I spent the whole day rebuilding a linux server because an update ate the system. This is not a Microsoft specific issue.
KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Do you use the internet? Just here on Lemmy I see people asking daily about how to fix their Linux distros that just stopped booting. I mean shit, Linux Mint has an entire utility built for making hourly backups of your machine for when it fucks up and you need to restore it to a bootable state lol
r00ty@kbin.life 9 months ago
Here's what I'm going to say here. With Windows it's very easy to make it a very slow running/system with problems. But, it's generally quite hard to entirely break it such that you cannot get to the GUI and attempt to fix it.
With Linux, just updating will sometimes break the system to the extent that if you're lucky it will boot to a terminal. I'm experienced with linux (since the 1990s) and I've had linux systems that took my a better part of a day to fix. Someone that just wants to turn it on and work is going to be lost trying to fix this kind of thing.
Ubuntu upgrades from one release to another are extremely hit and miss in my experience and again if you don't know how to pick up a failed upgrade and complete it, then fix the broken dependencies, fix the upgraded stuff that doesn't like your old config files, etc etc. You're going to be in trouble.
Linux is objectively better in every way except when it goes wrong. This is one of the reasons normal users won't adopt it en-masse.