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FWIW, to throw my anecdotes in: my Windows machine, built in 2018, has never crashed on me once, to my recollection. My Linux laptop (Thinkpad X1) has...locked
by wk_end 6y ago
FWIW, to throw my anecdotes in: my Windows machine, built in 2018, has never crashed on me once, to my recollection. My Linux laptop (Thinkpad X1) has...locked up a handful of times, I think. My work laptop, a 2017 Macbook Pro, crashes on me near-daily, and the keyboard is slowly approaching unusable.
- raffraffraff 6y agoOn a 2015 MacBook Pro my xubuntu was rock solid. On the ThinkPad p1 extreme it's a joke. The Nvidia driver core dumped on me yesterday. The usb bus got into a bad state the day before (this started happening after I started using a USB 3.0 HDMI adapter, to avoid having to use Nvidia to power external monitors). That caused the webcam on the same internal hub to stop working, an in our WFH times, a webcam is essential. The crazy part is that the webcam driver I used on the MacBook was reverse engineered and never actually reached "stability" or got added to the kernel. I just compiled it and packaged it with DKMS and then forgot all about it.
- Firehawke 6y agoIn the last three years I think the only OS-level crashes I've had on Windows 10 were failing hardware. Of course, knowing what hardware to avoid is half the battle!