I hear lots of people in the Linux community say that Windows is really unstable, but how unstable is it really? Here’s my opinion on the matter

Is Windows Unstable? Here Are My Thoughts

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2021-05-25 22:00:03

I hear lots of people in the Linux community say that Windows is really unstable, but how unstable is it really? Here’s my opinion on the matter…

I asked the community over on Fosstodon what they thought about the stability of Windows. I was expecting a lot of responses, but goodness me, there were LOADS of them! You can read the entire thread here.

Some of these I agree with, but not all of them. A few of them don’t actually relate to the stability of Windows at all. So I wanted to spend a bit of time writing out my thoughts on whether Windows is actually stable or not.

So looking at those 5 buckets again, it’s only really BSOD and the updates that pertain to the stability of Windows, in my opinion. Yes, the others are problems, but they don’t affect the stability of the OS.

Personally, I think the feedback around updates rebooting the machine automatically and BSOD is quite outdated. Probably as a result of many of the people providing feedback being Linux users for a long time. Or, dare I say it, a certain level of bandwagonsim maybe?

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