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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows' deliberate hostility.
The Stockholm syndrome is real.
At one point this was true, but that was many years ago.
Unfortunately, that reputation has kind of stuck.
The barriers are still too steep. My Ubuntu machine updated it's kernel and then refused to boot after that. I had to look up how to manually lock the old working kernel.
Windows has never completely broken itself on an update for me.
If that happened to my parents they'd be angrily driving to the shop to get another cheap windows laptop.
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.
The BSoD isn't always a bricked Windows machine, it's often just an OS crash that causes you to restart the system.