[jiggawatts]

The reverse also applies, where people that like Linux just totally ignore Windows maintenance. They’ll look down their noses at it and say that it’s insecure when they spend their time patching Linux and leaving Windows to fend for itself against attackers.

[zelphirkalt]

Someone must have made that "smart" decision to use servers with a proprietary OS, so that someone surely has paid the extra cost for MS support. No need to worry then.

[jiggawatts]

Windows Updates are free.

[zelphirkalt]

I am not talking about Windows updates here. But even if I was, there are things wrong with it. One example, that frequently bites me on my gaming OS:

Windows 10 by itself decides: "Hey, I'm going to replace your installed graphics card driver with some other version, that I will find myself online!" Then next time I start this OS, I get crashing graphics card driver and need to go and look on AMD website for the correct drivers, installing them over whatever crap Windows installed. This has happened at least 3 times already and it is pissing me off. It would probably be better to deactivate automatic Windows updates completely and then try to have a manual selection of installed components. But even then I could not be sure, that it will not try to replace my installed drivers with crap.

[Suppafly]

>and need to go and look on AMD website for the correct drivers

That's why nvidia has an app for that.

[zelphirkalt]

I think AMD has that too in its app, but if your graphics card driver is crashing in windows, your screen is freezing. Windows might try to restart the driver or so, getting the screen working briefly, but then it crashes again and ultimately it fails completely, you can only press the power button on your machine then.