This is triggering some bad memories. I havent used windows for anything serious in almost a decade, but it's pretty mind blowing they still havent fixed their

This is triggering some bad memories. I havent used windows for anything serious in almost a decade, but it's pretty mind blowing they still havent fixed their basic reliability and availability issues. It's especially farcical because it flies completely in the face of the marketing claims used to push commercial software over FOSS. I work at a facility where running experiments effectively costs $1000/hour, and we have learned the hard way to not let windows anywhere near anything remotely critical. We dont even use windows to host guis for talking to the back end. About 10 years ago we made a long series of attempts to remedy these problems of windows machines rebooting themselves etc when told not to and losing irreplacable overnight data etc. The only solution that can be trusted long term is total excorcism and switching to an OS that is written to help users compute instead of to make money for MS shareholders. If you absolutely cant use WINE, see if you can run it in a VM to at least mitigate some of the nonsense. Plus you have the option of taking snapshots to hard restore the machine. /rant