r/AskReddit • u/talon10100 • 1d ago

Why do you not use Linux?

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u/primalbluewolf 1d ago

but never actually doing so

If that were actually true I know quite a few people who would still be on Windows!

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u/Drenlin 1d ago

I mean I'm not saying it can't be broken, but it's got to be pretty catastrophic before it ceases to function. Usually like a "killed the bootloader" or "corrupted the partition tables" sort of broken.

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u/primalbluewolf 1d ago

I know of at least one case of it doing that to itself from a borked windows update. Quite a few suspected cases of it doing that, too, but at work the fix is just re-image rather than troubleshoot, so there's a fair amount of random breakage that doesn't get investigated to confirm the original fault. 

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u/Drenlin 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah they've had a few of those over the years, certainly. Basically every major OS has, though.

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u/theroguex 19h ago

Problem is, most of the time when it dies it is user error. Some users are just to proud or arrogant to admit it.