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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You might be suffering from the opposite of survivorship bias: When you work in IT you end up having to fix the strangest shit that reoccurs on certain categories of hardware.

I know for a fact that RHEL 7 just did not like certain appliances by vendors that used it (back in the day). They would regularly break themselves until the vendor put out an update that switched it to a Debian-based custom thing.

Also, all the (thousands of) appliances that use Windows are utter shit so it's not really a high bar. The vendor just needs to hire people that actually know what they're doing and if they do they won't use Windows on an appliance!