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I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the c
by stinos 13y ago
I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P
And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the common belief seems to be. Way over 90% of problems I witnessed myself was duewas dues to faulty software, drivers or hardware. And as you say it just got better with most releases which is (just guessing) partly due to less OS bugs and partly due to the OS taking better care of dealing with bad 3rd party software.
- avens19 13y agoIn win98 kernel32 blue screens were pretty common. But I agree that Windows is usually a pretty stable OS with things like 3rd party drivers and software causing most of the issues
- dllthomas 13y agoWell sure, but faulty software should be limited in its ability to do damage, and I think it's fair to lay some blame at the feet of the OS when it fails to prevent that.
- laumars 13y agoFaulty 3rd party software should never be allowed to cause kernel panics (aka BSODs)
- dllthomas 13y agoThat is possibly overstating the case. Depending on demands on performance and/or control it might make sense to sacrifice some stability... but it does count against the stability of the system.