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Discussion on: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Shauna Gordon

However, it never caused me to reinstall.

You're fortunate, then. The last thing that drove me to Linux (for gaming, no less), was because I had to reinstall Windows 10 three times on a fresh install for different reasons, including driver conflicts (not really MS's fault) and (MS's fault) a bad critical, required, and forced (regardless of update settings) update that forced even my husband (who's an MS sysadmin) to give up and just reinstall, because it bricked the system so completely that even he couldn't get in far enough to roll the update back. This was a system I had built specifically with gaming on Windows in mind.

This was earlier this year.

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Tim Apple

Not going to point fingers, but if it was a custom built system, could it have been hardware choices that ended up bricking the system? Poor drivers provided by manufacturers and the like? Not sure if 100% of the blame can fall on Windows.

I work for an IT shop, we have customers with custom built machines and we give them 0 warranty on any work with them because we have no control over components.