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0 pointsOsiris6y ago0 comments

Are you comparing Linux reliability to Windows?

I have a Linux desktop and a laptop (Linux preinstalled) and resume from sleep works about 50% of the time (usually GPU driver crashed during resume).

I've run normal updates that have broken the boot, or cause X to stop starting up. I get more nervous running updates on Linux than Windows.

At work a guy changed the password on his LUKS volume and it hosed his entire encrypted partition and he lost all his days.

Linux is very easy to break and very hard to fix.

Windows is definitely more reliable as a daily driver than Linux, in my experience.

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sjcoles6y ago

> Linux is very easy to break and very hard to fix.

Funny enough as a Linux admin I feel the opposite. In Windows I'm using EventViewer and Procmon to try to dig through bullshit UIs to try to find events. Hell, lots of times Windows components and applications themselves are schizophrenic about how they log. Either zero logging, way too much logging, non-standard logging, or some other bullshit. Let me grep a text file or use a bpftrace instead!

> Windows is definitely more reliable as a daily driver than Linux, in my experience.

I support ~50 Linux desktops (you read that right) that are in use 24/7/365 and almost never have to intervene. If I do usually it's because of a change elsewhere that requires updates to a package (looking at you freerdp) or the Kernel needs to be updated. It's not out of the ordinary to see up times of months with no intervention required.

On the other hand I am touching the other ~40 W10 laptops multiple times a week.

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