[mardifoufs]

In my experience, you are still much more likely to get broken hardware support when updating kernels on Linux, though I have no idea why. I almost never see or experienced stuff like my laptop camera not working at all after an update on Windows, but it does happen on Linux. The same goes for GPUs, which can break if you update your kernel often.

It's not necessarily the kernel's fault but it's something that does happen often using distros like say, fedora.

I think the main difference is that Linux supports and runs on almost everything, but in a lot of use cases it will be a specific version of the kernel that will be used for a product's lifetime (for embedded products) or have every update very heavily curated through a third party like Red hat. In those cases, Linux is rock stable, far more than Windows can be.

But for regular, personal usage, I genuinely think that Linux does break more often.

[adriancr]

> I almost never see or experienced stuff like my laptop camera not working at all after an update on Windows, but it does happen on Linux.

> But for regular, personal usage, I genuinely think that Linux does break more often.

How do you feel about windows forcing ads and monitoring what you do?

How do you feel when windows updates ignore your privacy choices to push the boundary even more?

Do you even have a choice now to stop ads and telemetry entirely as a consumer?

Is that a breakage? (nobody wants ads/monitoring yet here is microsoft forcing it on you via updates)

I would argue that is worse then whatever technical issues might appear upgrading linux and you cant fix that.

[mardifoufs]

I don't disagree at all. I'm completely allergic to ads at this point, hence why I use Linux a lot more :). But let's be honest, for the average user, the choice is super obvious. Yes, windows shows you ads in the start menu, but it "works" and constantly so. They don't need to necessarily worry about a windows update borking their GPU drivers, or having to use grub to boot into an older kernel because some proprietary driver stopped working after an update.

I personally know enough to fix or even prevent those issues, but for the vast majority of desktop users, even less casual users like gamers, they really don't care about the stuff you listed. It's sad, because it absolutely ruins the experience of what would otherwise be a great OS (the core of windows is great imo, just not everything on top of it).