Hey, just out of curiosity, which Debian version did you install and when?

The Trixie release shouldn’t mess with your sources at all, just because 12 is being moved to oldstable, you shouldn’t have to do anything.

You wrote that you run a headless server, so when you command an update, it lists you all obsolete packages with a request to run autoremove. Did you miss that or update some other way?

Worst case, if you got a new kernel (200-300M) every week and never removed old ones, you’d end up with 10G obsolete data a year. That’s about what I usually see with old Windows update files in the disk cleanup utility.

Not great either, but at least in the default configuration, Ext4 leaves a 5% reserved space, so that files can’t fill up your partition and make it unresponsive. Windows doesn’t do that…

You’re pointing to my colleague?

What’s this from?

Well, the recovery argument really only checks out when there are recent restore points made and a recovery partition is present, which is not the case in every or even most Windows configs, otherwise you’re SOL anyway.

Often times even those failed on me when Windows had shat itself and told me it can’t fix the issue and needs a restore medium, on which I then manually had to /fixboot and /rebuildBCD from the console. That’s not any more feasible for the average user.

I think installing Linux is definitely a hurdle, but you could usually find someone or a shop to do it for you or help you.

Otherwise, with all the new random prompts and welcome screens in Windows, I think any Linux system will stay out of the users way much more and let them work on their stuff without distractions.

Sure, Linux troubleshooting is bad for the average user, but you can also get help with that and Windows forums are bloated with trash replies and not any better quality-wise (same with Android nowadays, unfortunately).

Real talk now, I know there are use-cases where Windows is mandatory unfortunately. Video editing and civil engineering/architecture are two good examples.

Maybe switching to Mac is an option, but whether that’s any better is debatable.

However, most people I know that suffer from these issues are in neither field of work and aren’t necessarily even hardcore gamers. Yet they don’t even want to try anything else.

I’ve also had some difficulties fully switching to Linux a decade ago, but nothing that couldn’t be solved or I couldn’t abstain from (e.g. modern games, back in the day).

All it takes is the will not to be bullied by a corporation at home every day.

Oh, now I understand. They were just missing a comma between “off” and “lemmy”, super sweet! :)

Technically, the title doesn’t say “first”, but yeah, kind of. :)

Super anecdotal, but I’ve seen a few instances of those in my time as sysadmin.

Whether it was just failed or malfunctioning updates, I can’t tell, but I’ve had to deal with Windows not starting correctly after automatic updates multiple times.

Then there was the whole bricked HP laptop story recently, where automatic updates just randomly killed a lot of systems. We have multiple HP laptops in the company, though none were affected, but I can’t say I wasn’t sweating a little bit those days.

Same here actually, I first saw those photos in a recent post a few days ago, just can’t remember which one, though.

It is truly a work of art.

You feel like… a Night Lord?