• QuaffPotionsEnglish
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    Windows never breaks? Uhhhhh, that’s definitely not true. When I have to use Windows, I brace myself every time I have to update.

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      When did you last use windows, lol? Windows is pretty damn stable nowadays. I don’t think an update has ever broken my windows 10 install that is still going from 2016.

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        I’ve gotten a number of calls from clients recently where a Windows update uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers, making their Bluetooth mouse and keyboard unusable.

        I’ve even had a few where an update uninstalled the WiFi drivers so they couldn’t even download the drivers without a wired network connection.

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          Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.

          If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.

          Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.

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            that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for

            Curious as to which distro you were using?

            (Yeah, I know, but please, humor me.)

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              Debian sever. This was early 2018 or late 2017.

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      I use windows every day and I’ve never once seen it do anything wrong, ever.

      Maybe it’s a skill issue?

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      It’s been about four years since windows broke on me enough to do a reinstall. Linux lasts a month with me being gentle.

      It’s a no brainer.

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        I run arch BTW, 7 years throwing it down stairs, running commands that I had no idea what they did, learned linux from scratch deleting chunks of my hdd compiling and installing random software, never once had it break bad enough to reinstall . I bet you love ltt too haha maby you should stick to a beginner os like Windows, I’ve heard Apple is even easier or why don’t you just pay someone smarter than you to host and troubleshoot your os while they market your info and habits to the highest bidder oh wait