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by Measter 873 days ago
Funny you should bring up that argument. I had a media PC that was running Linux, and it worked great. Then there was big security vulnerability discovered in I think the SSL implementation, and I needed to update the OS because it was connected to the internet.

Except, the new version of the OS included a new version of the kernel. This version of the kernel had a long standing bug that prevented the kernel booting on my CPU/motherboard combination.

I ended up switching to Windows which just continued to work, and be updated, for years until I replaced the computer with an Intel NUC. Which I also couldn't install Linux on because there was no driver support.