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I recently built a windows PC again for gaming. Haven't used one for years. Everything's fresh, loads of room on hard drives etc and still sometimes it'll just

by sumo89 9mo ago

I recently built a windows PC again for gaming. Haven't used one for years. Everything's fresh, loads of room on hard drives etc and still sometimes it'll just be weird and needs a reset. But it doesn't surprise me, it's sad we've come to tolerate that from the world's most popular OS.

IrishTechie 9mo ago
I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last few weeks not which OS is in-use in my experience.
- mcny 9mo ago
  Familiarity might be the biggest differentiator. I switch between windows on my work computer and fedora gnome on my personal computer (and only interact with Debian server over ssh) so I am more at ease on Windows than I am with something like cachy OS and KDE.
- lnenad 9mo ago
  I have the same setup, just Arch instead of ubuntu on my laptop and I very rarely have any issues (like maybe once per month) that require me to reboot.
  - tsimionescu 9mo ago
    Once every few weeks and once per month seem pretty much the exact same - and about in line with my own experience with Windows on my work machine.
- f1shy 9mo ago
  I have Win10, mac and Ubuntu, in 3 different machines I'm using constantly. None of them is perfect, but windows is just infuriating, macos in the middle, and I can more or less live with ubuntu...
  - lostlogin 9mo ago
    And as always, I imagine Mac hardware with Ubuntu.
    - f1shy 9mo ago
      In my case I have 3 different computers. So no. The Ubuntu is a Z book
- lostlogin 9mo ago
  I agree. Mac OS used to be rock solid. We had machines at work that had uptime measured in years. My own machine would go months. It doesn’t anymore. Restarted twice today.
bloak 9mo ago
> the world's most popular OS Wikipedia claims that Android "has the largest installed base of any operating system in the world", if you're going to measure popularity that way. (Of course it's hard to know how to define an OS. Is Android a kind of Linux? Are the various things called "Windows" or "MacOS" to be regarded as different versions of the same OS just because marketing people decided to use the same name? If not, how much similarity in code or design is required?)
- gegtik 9mo ago
  I assumed he was talking about desktop OS
- ChocolateGod 9mo ago
  Can you even consider Android a singular OS? I personally don't in the same way I don't consider Fedora and Ubuntu the same OS, and there's far more differences between something like HyperOS and AOSP/PixelUI as there is between Ubuntu and Fedora. Android is an app platform.
  - nolist_policy 9mo ago
    App platforms are operating systems.
withinboredom 9mo ago
Didn’t someone recently uncover that this was usually do to ram losing bits over time? ECC would fix it? Maybe I’m misremembering
corndoge 9mo ago
As an aside, unless you are playing games that need NT kernel anticheat or are using a store other than steam, odds are the overall experience and performance is better on linux at this point.
- demiters 9mo ago
  And even Mac is doing well with games, most of my library runs natively. Baldurs Gate 3 runs better on the newer Apple chips than my somewhat aging gaming PC.
- jama211 9mo ago
  Depends on your hardware. On my machine cyberpunk runs at 40fps on Linux but around 60fps on windows. Which is annoying as I’d rather it be better
- sumo89 9mo ago
  Yeah it's just the kernel anti-cheat now which is keeping me on windows. I'm fully ready to swap to linux but unfortunately I do like to play games that need it.
lostlogin 9mo ago
> the world's most popular OS. No. Most common? Loathed? Used? Most tolerated? It’s not liked, and ‘popular’ implies that.
- elzbardico 9mo ago
  I'd say that most PC users have vague knowledge that linux or MacOS exists.
- sumo89 9mo ago
  Popular as in populous as in numerical
foobarian 9mo ago
Did the same just end of last year, NVME drive, gobs of RAM, and yet... sometimes the whole UI freezes solid for multiple seconds at a time when I close one out of my 30-40 Chrome tabs. I know it's not a cheap app to run, but this doesn't happen on MacOS.

by sumo89 9mo ago

IrishTechie 9mo ago

I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last few weeks not which OS is in-use in my experience.

mcny 9mo ago
Familiarity might be the biggest differentiator. I switch between windows on my work computer and fedora gnome on my personal computer (and only interact with Debian server over ssh) so I am more at ease on Windows than I am with something like cachy OS and KDE.
lnenad 9mo ago
I have the same setup, just Arch instead of ubuntu on my laptop and I very rarely have any issues (like maybe once per month) that require me to reboot.
- tsimionescu 9mo ago
  Once every few weeks and once per month seem pretty much the exact same - and about in line with my own experience with Windows on my work machine.
f1shy 9mo ago
I have Win10, mac and Ubuntu, in 3 different machines I'm using constantly. None of them is perfect, but windows is just infuriating, macos in the middle, and I can more or less live with ubuntu...
- lostlogin 9mo ago
  And as always, I imagine Mac hardware with Ubuntu.
  - f1shy 9mo ago
    In my case I have 3 different computers. So no. The Ubuntu is a Z book
lostlogin 9mo ago
I agree. Mac OS used to be rock solid. We had machines at work that had uptime measured in years. My own machine would go months. It doesn’t anymore. Restarted twice today.

bloak 9mo ago

> the world's most popular OS Wikipedia claims that Android "has the largest installed base of any operating system in the world", if you're going to measure popularity that way. (Of course it's hard to know how to define an OS. Is Android a kind of Linux? Are the various things called "Windows" or "MacOS" to be regarded as different versions of the same OS just because marketing people decided to use the same name? If not, how much similarity in code or design is required?)

gegtik 9mo ago
I assumed he was talking about desktop OS
ChocolateGod 9mo ago
Can you even consider Android a singular OS? I personally don't in the same way I don't consider Fedora and Ubuntu the same OS, and there's far more differences between something like HyperOS and AOSP/PixelUI as there is between Ubuntu and Fedora. Android is an app platform.
- nolist_policy 9mo ago
  App platforms are operating systems.

withinboredom 9mo ago

Didn’t someone recently uncover that this was usually do to ram losing bits over time? ECC would fix it? Maybe I’m misremembering

corndoge 9mo ago

As an aside, unless you are playing games that need NT kernel anticheat or are using a store other than steam, odds are the overall experience and performance is better on linux at this point.

demiters 9mo ago
And even Mac is doing well with games, most of my library runs natively. Baldurs Gate 3 runs better on the newer Apple chips than my somewhat aging gaming PC.
jama211 9mo ago
Depends on your hardware. On my machine cyberpunk runs at 40fps on Linux but around 60fps on windows. Which is annoying as I’d rather it be better
sumo89 9mo ago
Yeah it's just the kernel anti-cheat now which is keeping me on windows. I'm fully ready to swap to linux but unfortunately I do like to play games that need it.

lostlogin 9mo ago

> the world's most popular OS. No. Most common? Loathed? Used? Most tolerated? It’s not liked, and ‘popular’ implies that.

elzbardico 9mo ago
I'd say that most PC users have vague knowledge that linux or MacOS exists.
sumo89 9mo ago
Popular as in populous as in numerical

foobarian 9mo ago

Did the same just end of last year, NVME drive, gobs of RAM, and yet... sometimes the whole UI freezes solid for multiple seconds at a time when I close one out of my 30-40 Chrome tabs. I know it's not a cheap app to run, but this doesn't happen on MacOS.