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yes i want to use Linux but it's not stable to the point where i can't use it without dying
@callmore there's a very large asterisk here of either "with your hardware, unfortunately :<" which is just that some stuff hasn't quite caught up if you've really been hardware, or with how it uses memory possibly uncovering a hardware flaw.
Any time ANY operating system actually crashes on you repeatedly, that should spell a reason to run memtest86+ for at least 2 passes. I'd do it even if Windows was stable on the same system, or vice versa.
EDIT: have had multiple confusing crashes revealed to be memory failure issues. I've not had OEM RAM in a while since I build or upgrade so it's been easy to order a replacement (save for my previous laptop soldered RAM, grr)
@KayOhtie not gonna remove the linux install i have, try to remember to run it in the future since it's not a bad idea anyways, but for the time being i'll just use windows
i feel somehow like i'm gonna get shunted by a fuck ton of people because "ew you used linux and gave up and used windows looser"
@callmore Ignore people. The only real complaint folks _maybe_ could have is about the way it's discussed/understood as Linux' fault when it's almost certainly one of the two options I gave, and while the former could be considered "at fault", I don't like ascribing fault to it in the same way I don't fault Windows for bugs on hardware without good driver support for it.
I think you should run that memory test before you forget about needing to run it though; if it's a fault, Windows will be showing it soon too, if it hasn't already and just been ignored because "ah it's Windows, it crashes sometimes" (it doesn't unless there's a driver or hardware fault).
I've honestly been fighting against the "you should just use linux" stance for years, my dad is one of those kind of linux users that pretty much will not shut up about how it's better than windows or how he got so many copies of viruses sent to him but they only work on windows......
I grew up on windows, it's what i know and what i use, and dammit i'll keep fighting with it cause it's what i use and it's what the stuff i do works on.
The DAY there exists a linux version that has 100% COMPLETE compatibility with stuff that runs on windows...........maybe you'll be able to talk me into things....but that means accounting for old stuff too cause i'm the nostalgic type that plays all sorts of old shit and even still once in a grand while, plays games off CDs.....and other old stuff.
In the meantime i just installed stopupdates10 this morning because fuck you 10, stop trying to force updates when i'm really not interested. especially when i need to leave in the morning but you try and get in my way and make me worry about losing progress i don't have time to deal with.....i might unfreeze it later and let some security updates go....but then the updater is going back on ice. Especially cause it was trying for the umpteenth time to get me to go along with 11, which would probably break a ton of stuff..
Where's the person who invented "software as a service"? If i was slightly more unhinged, i'd want to strangle them. And if you showed me a few apologists for that sort of thing as well, we might end up recreating the executioner scene from Blazing saddles. Would be booked solid for 3 weeks.
What i'm saying is more people should rewatch mel brooks movies......they're fun
this has been your chaos dragon ramble for the day. Fuck Mondays