[sterlind]

and yet everyone is blaming Windows sigh.

Windows actually runs a lot of drivers in user-mode, even GPU drivers. largely this is because third-party drivers were responsible for the vast majority of blue screens, but the users would blame Microsoft. which makes sense; Windows crashes so they blame Windows, but I doubt anyone blamed Linux for the kernel panic.

[prmoustache]

I think windows can be blamed on how badly you can fix that kind of issues. I mean on linux or any bsd admins would build an iso image that would automatically run a script that would take care of optionnally decrypting the system drive, then remove crowdstrike. Or alternatively simply building a live system that take an address via dhcp and start an ssh server. and admins would remotely and automatically run a playbook that mount that iso on the hypervisor, boot it, remotely apply the fix, then boot back the system on the system drive.

Maybe this is just my ignorance about windows and its ecosystem but it seems most admins this morning were clueless on how to fix that automatically and remotely on n machines and would resort to boot in safe mode and remove a file manually on each single server. This is just insane to think that supposed windows sysadmins / cloudops have no idea how to deploy a fix automatically on that platform.

[fsflover]

Linux is blamed for bad device drivers all the time, even on HN.