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That's potentially my biggest issue woth Windows. You aren't actually made to understand what went wrong. Linux will give you lots of information. It can be overwhelming if you're just used to seeing "This app stopped working, wait or close it?", but once you're used to it, you realize that info usually give you all the tools you need to fix your problem.
That's the thing right? I'm very much a non-tech person. But Linux error messages are nice and informative to the point that, even if I don't personally know what the fuck they are saying --
-- I can just copy them to my browser search bar. Oh look, someone else had the same issue. And someone who knew what they were talking about presented a solution. Nice, now I can get back to work!
And even when I am forced to troubleshoot on my own, the error messages and terminal logs often give enough of a clue that I can trial-and-error my way into making shit work.
What... you don't like the smiley face and QR code that leads you to a dead link on a rando microsoft website? You sure you need more information other than "Critical Process Died"?
The memory dump it does is useless... like anyone is ever gonna take a look at that memory dump. Disable it, it just wastes disk space.
The first time I saw a sadface bsod I legitimately said out-loud "Are you JOKING?"