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And yet, I have never heard of a Linux update which bricked your system, something that has happened with both Windows and OSX. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/

And yet, I have never heard of a Linux update which bricked your system, something that has happened with both Windows and OSX. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/this-macos-update-is-bricking-some-macs https://www.tomsguide.com/news/this-macos-update-is-bricking... https://www.itpro.com/hardware/358739/apple-releases-macos-update-to-fix-usb-c-bricking-issue https://www.itpro.com/hardware/358739/apple-releases-macos-u... https://www.laptopmag.com/news/windows-10-update-now-bricking-pcs-what-to-do https://www.laptopmag.com/news/windows-10-update-now-brickin... Searching Linux update bricking systems brought up nothing relevant. The closest I could find was a forum post by a user complaining about the update bricking their “experimental system”. The Macos examples are particularly bad. Bricking systems with logic boards replaced by Apple repair and because you connected to “unauthorized” USB devices.

Fnoord 4y ago
You have not heard of it? Well, you're replying to someone who's using Arch. With Arch, you get into trouble all the time, but if you're well versed with Linux (and Arch) you can fix it. I'm using Arch, and ZFS, on my work laptop. A month ago, when I update my kernel, boom I had to use Systemrescue because it would no longer boot ZFS root. And of course just at that day I lost my Ventoy USB stick (probably my 2 y.o. son got rid of it ...)
jorvi 4y ago
Literally the first time I installed Ubuntu in 2009, I booted into it, it asked me to install a bunch of updates, and when I did the required reboot, it dropped me into the boot terminal with a bunch of vague errors. Linux is not infallible.