[scotty79]

> Computing-wise that three week vacation turned out to be very relaxing. Machine would suspend and resume without problem, Wi-Fi just worked, audio did not stop working, I spend three weeks without having to recompile the kernel to adjust this or that, nor fighting the video drivers, or deal with the bizarre and random speed degradation that my ThinkPad suffered

For three weeks every system works. After six months every system breaks. Even Windows 10 and Mac OSX developed various strange bugs (or annoying idiosyncrasies) after few months of my use.

[Piskvorrr]

You seem to be doing something strange. The (Linux,Windows,Android) systems under my control (mine+family) seem to be working rather well for years, without any special sauce on my part, or the users'.

[scotty79]

I don't do anything beyond installing, uninstalling and upgrading software. I don't tamper with the system itself, don't use any automatic system cleaners, decrapifiers and such.

For example my Windows 10 now got stuck on some system upgrade and periodically informs me about that with fullscreen message box and sound gets stuck for fraction of a second from time to time when I watch movies and games I'm playing get stuck from time to time for few seconds when I'm running them from one SSD but not the other.

My Mac OSX gets stuck on accessing network share and refuses to continue until I restart finder, also prefers WiFi when cable connection is available despite wifi being lower on "set service order".

Haven't run Linux for last few years as a main system but I'd surely find some stuff that stopped working after few months or in some circumstances.