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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Yes, installing through official media and doing sudo apt-get upgrade, the horror.
Pointing out a bug that has been around for less than a few days and will be fixed shortly does not refute the above statement.
It was still unfixed as of yesterday. That's how I found it out. I installed debian and was like huh. I can't update.
That is a one-off situation. I might be losing my patience with the amount of ignorance in these types of threads but if you honestly believe that Windows is a more stable OS than Linux, you're objectively wrong. Period.
Do you think Windows doesn't have one-off issues with updates? Microsoft delivered an update in 2018 that literally deleted user files in home directories. And a simple Google search will inform you of the Windows updates that have broken userspace multiple times since then and before then.