My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.

Linux might break more often, but when it does I've ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it

Yep. On Windows the mantra is always "Just reinstall".

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux might break more often

I convinced my work to allow me to use Linux on my work laptop. I have far less issues now.

In my experience, Windows breaks way more often.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't confirm this, since W7 until now on W10 I have not seen a BSOD again. This only happened to me in previous versions on a few occasions. It wasn't that serious either, restarting and issue resolved. In the past with Ubuntu, which at the time was a disaster, I have had many crashes or I have been left without a desktop due to incompatibilities with it's Compiz, changing to Kubuntu this no longer happened, resulting much more stable. In general, the current OS, be it Linux or Windows, are very stable OS.

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Something breaking doesn't need to be a BSOD. It can be minor things that either don't work properly and annoy you, or something that breaks and now gets in your way.

However, in all three cases I would still say Linux is better. I've administered many hundreds (if not thousands, I honestly don't know) of systems. So I'm not just basing my opinion on a few systems.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system. But naturally you must spend an afternoon afterwards to restore your original settings, throw out all the garbage and reinstall all your applications and files.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.

Only if there's enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.

I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status is still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

You cab do that with Linux if you use backups/snapshots.

I've done it many times using LVM way back when.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

“Bad elf magic” isn't a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn't be loaded because it's corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)