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To be fair (and I'm really not a Windows fan), many of the BSODs on modern versions Windows can be attributed to shoddy third-party drivers. And as a point of
by tjohns 10y ago
To be fair (and I'm really not a Windows fan), many of the BSODs on modern versions Windows can be attributed to shoddy third-party drivers.
And as a point of comparison, I've had tons of kernel panics on MacOS over the years, for various reasons. Sometimes defective hardware, sometimes odd software interactions, and sometimes for reasons I can't explain.
Windows has a lot of problems. The kernel itself is not really one of them.
(That said, I still wouldn't use Windows on an embedded device, much less a life-critical one. Even using Linux would give me pause in this scenario.)
- jcrawfordor 10y agoI had a friend whose Macbook Pro started kernel panicking every time he exited emacs, completely reliably. A rather bizarre problem that persisted for months on his device, through some updates, but we couldn't replicate on another machine. Some kind of weird hardware issue? Corrupted software somewhere not detected by integrity checks? No idea. But these days, kernel panics and BSODs tend to originate from odd edge-case problems like that. (And yes, the joke "but why would you ever exit emacs?" was said many times)