Interesting video.

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    I don’t entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It’s usually some obscure error code that I can’t find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.

    Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.

    I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn’t have to use them to work on projects with others.

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      The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.

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        Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I’m glad I don’t have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.

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        The only printers are brother laser and old models of other brand laser. Everything else is dead to me.