I actually can’t remember any time I’ve had a linux computer actually crash other than because of a hardware failure. I’ve had the buggy vulkan pre-release version of BeamNG crash my video driver but that’s actually recoverable without a reboot if you have a way to get a shell remotely or if you have sysrq enabled and again that’s using very much not release quality software.
Although to be fair I don’t think crashes are a good way to measure how usable an operating system is for desktop users. I’ve also never had VMS or NetBSD crash
Linux crashing from VLC is why I discovered MPV (CTT had this same issue with VLC specifically in Linux). Linux also crashed from a native game (Bombermaaan), and mounting a drive that hadn’t been shut down properly among other times, but these are crashes were where reasons can be specified and not be a possible result of hardware malfunction.
Windows automatically repaired the drive before mounting. -Some would say because of ‘bloat’.
Although to be fair I don’t think crashes are a good way to measure how usable an operating system is for desktop users.
Agree, and I’m tired of seeing anecdotes on it when I could give my own where Linux crashed 10x as much in one month as Windows in a decade for me, and me being able to specify reasons. There’s also plenty of stability issues with Linux to be found online with a simple web search. When Windows Millenium was giving people headaches, I fixed it simply by removing the crappy software firewalls that were popular at the time. -I ran WinME for over 6 months of heavy gaming without shutdown with no problems -shutdown to upgrade hardware.
And we’re not even getting into how ‘stable’ is a misused term among their community.
You didn’t know what you are talking about. Go learn how computers work and then you can talk.
Says the person that claims software can’t destroy hardware.