What annoys me the most, is you can brick your system (most likely
your desktop environment, some firmware or kernel stuff) so easy on Linux.
How?, unless you are tweaking the kernel not knowing what you are doing, how?
To magically get a kernel panic you would have to:
1) remove your bootloader: you still could boot from a liveusb and reinstall it.
2) manually compiling a wrongly configured kernel and installing it without a working one as backup.
3) deleting all of your /boot folder.
In fact as a non-root user you can't, maybe is you use a rolling release and have very, very bad luck you could get a bad package, but is very unlikely. And even as a root almost every problem has a solution, to brick the system you have to be a root user actively doing dangerous things, almost being self destructive.
Thank you so much for your comment. The intent was to encourage the beginners to use Linux, an Open source software instead of spending a huge amount on MacOS.
For me, there is absolutely no downside of using Windows, because it lets me use Excel smoothly, I can watch movies with a few clicks, can easily install several software, and use it. I am happy with Windows based on my use case. So for a non-techie, he/she may or may not find Windows with downside. That's why I said "case-to-case basis".
And I have just started getting programming world. I think the article may some polishing. SO Thank you Torsten for your feedback
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I strongly agree.
I am a linux user for a long time now. Driver issues are a huge problem, especially on laptops.
What annoys me the most, is you can brick your system (most likely your desktop environment, some firmware or kernel stuff) so easy on linux.
Yes, you have more control over your system but that comes at a cost.
How?, unless you are tweaking the kernel not knowing what you are doing, how?
To magically get a kernel panic you would have to:
1) remove your bootloader: you still could boot from a liveusb and reinstall it.
2) manually compiling a wrongly configured kernel and installing it without a working one as backup.
3) deleting all of your /boot folder.
In fact as a non-root user you can't, maybe is you use a rolling release and have very, very bad luck you could get a bad package, but is very unlikely. And even as a root almost every problem has a solution, to brick the system you have to be a root user actively doing dangerous things, almost being self destructive.
I never face Driver issues in Linux,
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Hi Torsten,
Thank you so much for your comment. The intent was to encourage the beginners to use Linux, an Open source software instead of spending a huge amount on MacOS.
For me, there is absolutely no downside of using Windows, because it lets me use Excel smoothly, I can watch movies with a few clicks, can easily install several software, and use it. I am happy with Windows based on my use case. So for a non-techie, he/she may or may not find Windows with downside. That's why I said "case-to-case basis".
And I have just started getting programming world. I think the article may some polishing. SO Thank you Torsten for your feedback