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My experiences with Ubuntu vs Windows, I did not come away thinking that free software has less bugs in it. This is not to say that Windows has no bugs in it, b

My experiences with Ubuntu vs Windows, I did not come away thinking that free software has less bugs in it. This is not to say that Windows has no bugs in it, but I’ve never had my sound just stop working or my WiFi break after an upgrade on a Windows machine.

monoideism 6y ago
Perhaps not, but I've had performance issues far, far more often on Windows than on Linux (or MacOS). I mean, you typically can't even go a week without rebooting Windows, or you suffer severe degradation of performance. Also, I personally have never had my sound just stop working or my Wifi break on Ubuntu since probably 2013 or 2014.
em500 6y ago
Windows 10 has a pretty awful update history. Among it's greatest hits, it has caused user data loss and rendered some PCs unbootable (including one of my laptops).
- boogies 6y ago
  IIRC MS has even had to block their own updates from their own Surface devices to prevent bricking. Contrast that GNU/Linux which a majority of desktop users probably run on hardware that wasn’t designed for it — I know I do because I’ve seen plenty of BSODs after updates which took orders of magnitude longer than installing GNU on the same hardware which ran the latter flawlessly.
- imtringued 6y ago
  No, windows updates always had that reputation. Vista, 7, 10. All of them "bootlooped" i.e. an error occurs during update but windows does not delete the failed update from cache. Imagine being a 13 year old kid with a Vista laptop trying to install .NET Framework because he wanted to play Terraria but then his laptop becomes useless. Of course that is going to breed resentment and fueled my switch to Arch Linux. I managed to "unbrick" a Windows 10 system by disabling the windows update service and by deleting the cache folder. Windows updates are just universally bad.
lukeschlather 6y ago
> This is not to say that Windows has no bugs in it, but I’ve never had my sound just stop working or my WiFi break after an upgrade on a Windows machine. Sound just stops working every few days on my Windows laptop. I have also had upgrades break things on Windows. With Ubuntu, while I have had some surprises they are never random and I can fix them. With Windows it's just like... stuff just randomly stops working several times a day with no rhyme or reason to why. It's an organic, nondeterministic, unpredictable system. That's not to say Windows doesn't fail in repeatable ways, it does that too. I've totally had OS, browser, Slack upgrades break things in really basic ways. But that's something that comes from updating software, the instability... that's a Windows problem that I don't have on Ubuntu.

monoideism 6y ago

Perhaps not, but I've had performance issues far, far more often on Windows than on Linux (or MacOS). I mean, you typically can't even go a week without rebooting Windows, or you suffer severe degradation of performance. Also, I personally have never had my sound just stop working or my Wifi break on Ubuntu since probably 2013 or 2014.

em500 6y ago

Windows 10 has a pretty awful update history. Among it's greatest hits, it has caused user data loss and rendered some PCs unbootable (including one of my laptops).

boogies 6y ago
IIRC MS has even had to block their own updates from their own Surface devices to prevent bricking. Contrast that GNU/Linux which a majority of desktop users probably run on hardware that wasn’t designed for it — I know I do because I’ve seen plenty of BSODs after updates which took orders of magnitude longer than installing GNU on the same hardware which ran the latter flawlessly.
imtringued 6y ago
No, windows updates always had that reputation. Vista, 7, 10. All of them "bootlooped" i.e. an error occurs during update but windows does not delete the failed update from cache. Imagine being a 13 year old kid with a Vista laptop trying to install .NET Framework because he wanted to play Terraria but then his laptop becomes useless. Of course that is going to breed resentment and fueled my switch to Arch Linux. I managed to "unbrick" a Windows 10 system by disabling the windows update service and by deleting the cache folder. Windows updates are just universally bad.

lukeschlather 6y ago

> This is not to say that Windows has no bugs in it, but I’ve never had my sound just stop working or my WiFi break after an upgrade on a Windows machine. Sound just stops working every few days on my Windows laptop. I have also had upgrades break things on Windows. With Ubuntu, while I have had some surprises they are never random and I can fix them. With Windows it's just like... stuff just randomly stops working several times a day with no rhyme or reason to why. It's an organic, nondeterministic, unpredictable system. That's not to say Windows doesn't fail in repeatable ways, it does that too. I've totally had OS, browser, Slack upgrades break things in really basic ways. But that's something that comes from updating software, the instability... that's a Windows problem that I don't have on Ubuntu.