I remember some years ago there was a "malware" going around that would flash OpenWRT onto people's routers, and set them to have more secure default settings.
There should be another thing like that, but one that upgrades Windows into a Linux distro.
Gemini claims it doesn't exist when I prompted it for finding more info, so for the sake of testing out Gemini's capability of searching I'm doubly interested if this exists.
Well, the US government has at least twice broken into infected US devices and fixed things. IDK about installing OpenWRT but the stories have some overlap
When did you last use windows, lol? Windows is pretty damn stable nowadays. I don't think an update has ever broken my windows 10 install that is still going from 2016.
I've gotten a number of calls from clients recently where a Windows update uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers, making their Bluetooth mouse and keyboard unusable.
I've even had a few where an update uninstalled the WiFi drivers so they couldn't even download the drivers without a wired network connection.
Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.
If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.
Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn't have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.
I run arch BTW, 7 years throwing it down stairs, running commands that I had no idea what they did, learned linux from scratch deleting chunks of my hdd compiling and installing random software, never once had it break bad enough to reinstall . I bet you love ltt too haha... maby you should stick to a beginner os like Windows, I've heard Apple is even easier... or why don't you just pay someone smarter than you to host and troubleshoot your os while they market your info and habits to the highest bidder... oh wait
Been running Arch on my work laptop for over a year. Still waiting for the fabled difficulty and update breaks. Starting to think in modern times its perpetuated to keep people on Windows.
Must be nice. It's been about seven years since I last dove into Linux, so maybe things have changed. But also in that time, windows became even more stable than it was, and it's silky smooth these days.
I don't see any benefits to even trying Linux again.
The user. Depending on what they try to do, it can easily break Linux. (looking at me somehow breaking KDE Plasma and somehow fixing it without understanding how it broke or how I fixed it)
Updating (from what I understand, mostly a big issue on rolling release distros like Arch or Manjaro). Bleeding edge software with major bugs the stable release don't get can always cause instability.
Though, I will say, that I've never had win10 crash on me unless I have too much stuff open or am being an absolute idiot. Windows always seems to be stable, at least I've never had issues for a long time.
Let’s be honest though. I’m a big fan of Linux/Unix systems, but if (not saying that’s necessarily the case) a normal user can break their installation by being a normal user, it’s not suited for normal users.
Windows is a pain in the ass imo, but pretty hard for a normal user to break in my experience.
Sometimes people just don't think about that people can have different wants and needs.
All, literally every game I want to play runs great in Linux, and my hobbies of self hosting, development, homelabbing, and data hoarding are all leagues better on it.
That doesn't make a good choice for my friend that only logs on to play destiny 2. It also doesn't matter why, to my friend, its a bad choice. It could be the devs are chained and lashed by Microsoft for even mentioning Linux in the office, but what matters to someonethatt only wants to play that game with friends is whether it works.