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Windows lately: The office and SCADA machines I work with are the most obstructive systems imaginable. Randomly logging users out while running a machine, blue screening despite only running a single 2mb .exe for more than a week. Surprise, bitch, you gotta update even though this is a mission critical machine that is in use!
I ran Debian on my daily driver laptop starting in 2016 and after the first week of tweaking I ran it for 5 years. And that's not just web browsing, I used it for gaming, running VMs, programming and CAD. It was the lowest maintenance machine I have had. Conversely my W10 gaming machine surprises me pretty much monthly with its Windowsy bullshit. Will the USB mic be detected or will I have to restart Steam to regain voice chat, will the latest update disable my second monitor, will a joystick that requires no extra software under Linux require me to run an unsigned executable with an EULA written in Chinese? Who knows! 🤡
Our IT department was outsourced to an international support company that thinks blocking NTP but allowing SSH and mandatory reboots of production equipment is a solid security policy. "Windows Brain" is a thing in corporate settings.
I use software to program industrial hardware, it's Windows only and if you install it all (or multiple versions of one package) on a single machine they start to break each other's shitty hacks. Using VMs saves me from having to own and maintain 5 physical machines. The VMs don't even have a virtual nic so they stay frozen in a working state and don't get broken by a bugfix.
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The Windows problem is that it needs to restart during the update process and that Windows "professionals" have no other option. The fact that updates are on a mandatory schedule at all is the result of 20 years of vulnerabilities that were going unpatched because Windows updates break working systems.
Security updates for Linux are just as needed, an unpatched bug can be exploited, but applying those patches does not interfere with operation of the machine. The update can be installed at any time, restarting the application or the whole machine can be done at any time.