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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by thehatfox to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have a phrase for a bricked windows install: it's called the Blue Screen of Death. It's not like Windows never gets fucked either.

I've personally never had such an issue upgrading Linux.

[–] mall_ninja 3 points 1 year ago

If you want anecdotes, I can give you mine about how the mouse simply stops working until i unload & reload the driver, or how the window manager shits the bed upon wake up.

Mac, Windows, Linux - they're all software, they all have bugs, someone is going to have a bad time with all of them eventually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The BSoD isn't always a bricked Windows machine, it's often just an OS crash that causes you to restart the system.