> Pre-Windows Vista, Sound drivers were responsible for a double digit % of Windows crashes. I sound drivers on linux have historically being (somtimes buggy b

> Pre-Windows Vista, Sound drivers were responsible for a double digit % of Windows crashes. I sound drivers on linux have historically being (somtimes buggy but) extremely stable. I don't think it has anything to do with them belonging to the kernel; but I do get your point in terms of crashing potential. > And video cards drivers aren't exactly the most famously reliable bits of code, having the entire display subsystem be restartable is an amazing boon to stability. This is something I envy on windows: I once saw a warning on windows explaining that the display was restarted because the driver crashed and wondered that on linux I'd have to login through the network to do the same and would still lose everything that was running under X. Video drivers have been also so stable that it has been a non problem nevertheless. >> Your computer shouldn't get slower over time >Wish someone told my Android phone that! Although I hear windows users saying that third party software are to blame and that windows 11 is better in this regard, this has not being what I saw with people who bought recent windows computers. >That is one of the things Windows popularized. Auto-mount is a Linux thing. Heck I remember circa 2005 being yelled at online because I expected my USB mouse to work under Linux when I plugged it into my laptop, something Windows had been doing since 1997 or so. In 1997 I can't tell much about how hot plugging would work with a USB mouse on linux. But my experience is much better than on windows these days. It is funny I plug a keyboard on a friend's computer and windows says "installing driver software for hardware..." and wastes some time installing a driver that should already been installed because the other keyboard already is a USB keyboard.