> I keep hearing people reinstalling and I don't understand why. I believe it comes down to popularity. The more popular something is, the more corner cases y

> I keep hearing people reinstalling and I don't understand why. I believe it comes down to popularity. The more popular something is, the more corner cases your OS has to deal with as people write software that apparently does weird unforeseen combinations to the underlying OS. I've had to reinstall linux several times because of bad AMD/nvidia driver installs. On windows, a windows update recently disabled my AMD video driver. AMD and NVidia drivers have notoriously terrible histories when it comes to the linux kernel. But with Windows/Mac there's 10,000 times more crap like this. Particularly on windows. Mac has locked a few more things down, so it should be more stable, but I still hear stories of people that do reinstalls on it occasionally.