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Microsoft has gotten way too comfortable with having no real OS competition... I think maybe after this they might actually feel the hit as Linux has gotten so easy to install/use (in some cases, like updates, easier than Windows), is so stable, and works with most games.
People are noticing and giving it a shot since they have nothing to lose.
Linux being easy to install was a weird target to begin with. If it were good, framework could easily find popularity. The issue with Linux is less the install than the upkeep and the jank package ecosystem. For every official package it feels like theres a bootleg build uploaded through gitlab ci by user luvgunz6969. Even something as basic as syncthing seems to have 5 different ways to install and run it. Firefox is insecure on Linux. Thunderbird doesn't have a fucking tray icon. Installing specific drivers breaks secureboot. It's a fucking minefield.
I don't know about it being stable. I've run python scripts that opens lots of images before, and my OS (Linux Mint) let's it empty my memory and freeze my computer, it isn't even a sudo command - that isn't stable behavior to me.
Sounds like user error.
But no really, I recently switched to Bazzite, which is immutable and atomic, and it is 1000% more stable than Windows.
It doesn't hurt to kill processes that will freeze the computer.
Definitely. Is the implication that you can't easily do this in Linux?