[b3lvedere]

""For my kids' machines at home, anytime they boot windows, it will do an update, and a good percentage of the time, the update will fail, and brick the machine, requiring a complete re-install."

My wife and kids all use and have used 2nd hand company Windows 10 laptops. Since one of my roles by day is being a system administrator, i took quite some time to setup Windows 10 as they and i like it, being very very thorough in its various settings. The things just.. work..

It's quite rare if they ask for help about updates, crashes, etc. Haven't had a bricked OS since Windows ME.

Getting Fifa 23 and FC24 to work flawlessly on the Windows 10 game computer on the other hand.... Maybe i should start working for EA :)

[jacknews]

"being very very thorough in its various settings. "

Perhaps that's the key. I don't have time for that, linux just works, though of course some apps aren't available at all on linux, hence the windows boots.

[b3lvedere]

Perhaps, but Linux updates and upgrades sometimes will break things as well and require quite some time to get it right.