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[–] spider@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever

At one point this was true, but that was many years ago.

Unfortunately, that reputation has kind of stuck.

[–] Sybs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The barriers are still too steep. My Ubuntu machine updated it's kernel and then refused to boot after that. I had to look up how to manually lock the old working kernel.

Windows has never completely broken itself on an update for me.

If that happened to my parents they'd be angrily driving to the shop to get another cheap windows laptop.

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Funny, I switched to Ubuntu because my brand new laptop was continually bricking with Windows 10, specifically due to Windows Update.

Roundabouts the time period of the forced Windows 10 update I had a desktop and laptop BOTH completely break, booting only to a black screen on startup, having received somewhere around half of an update I had no say in.

I’d like to think they’ve learned their lesson. I’d like to think I could safely leave a windows computer on overnight without waking up to a surprise new version, or bricked PC. But even having that as an outside possibility is enough to turn me off windows entirely.

[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a phrase for a bricked windows install: it's called the Blue Screen of Death. It's not like Windows never gets fucked either.

I've personally never had such an issue upgrading Linux.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The BSoD isn't always a bricked Windows machine, it's often just an OS crash that causes you to restart the system.

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. You are underestimating how stupid the average person is. They cannot peel an orange.