Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

NGL, some distros will give you the anxiety that the next update will brick your OS as well

Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking "what now?" much more frequently with it..

With windows it is more like "wtf is this new ad on my start menu?" Or "how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?"
- One time an update broke audio, and I spent like 15 minutes digging around in pipewire logs and weird config parameters before I realized that I was literally just muted lol. Pulseaudio has irrevocably conditioned me to assume that whenever there is no audio, it must be some obscure bizzare weird issue instead of something simple
btrfs subvolume snapshot / /snapshots/backup1 lol

Won't save you from a bricked bootloader tho haha
Laughing in NixOS...

Sigh… c/linuxmemes continues to leak

Can't search for converts in a circle jerk.
- Won't convert people with circle jerk arguments either.

Other cures include literally just restarting your PC once a month so it can install updates.

Or disabling the stupid power settings that mean a shutdown isn't a shutdown, and turning your computer off when not in use
- It's hilarious that so many issues in Windows can be fixed with a restart but then they made it not actually restart when turned off and on again.
I mean, I use Linux but I’ve used a lot of Windows in the past. I don’t find either of them particularly more stable than the other. I had blue screens a few years ago on my laptop and that turned out to be faulty RAM. I haven’t had a Windows-caused BSOD in years. And all this talk of Windows suddenly starting an update while I’m using it, I’ve literally never had that happen.
- Not sure how you have avoided that one. It's been a thing since windows 7
It's windows. You'll not have a choice in restarting at least once every couple of days.
But it, like, turns itself off when I’m not using it. Why do I need to restart it?

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Or weekly, just to be safe

Linux Syndrome:

When nobody asked but somehow the solution is Linux.

If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It's turtles all the way down!
- wait till u hear what the templeos people have to say about openbsd
- But this isn't a linux community though, it is a meme community.
  
  The linuxmemes are on a different community.

Linux machines don't crash unexpectedly, because if they do, it's your fault for configuring it wrong and you should have expected it.

Windows machines don't crash unexpectedly because it's Microsoft and you should have expected it.
Hum... Hardware does still fail at random.
- And that is the main cause of seeing a BSOD.
Or you just decided to update all your packages like a madman whilst not running on a Debian based distro
- Bruh, if a package update breaks something, I just roll back the BTRFS snapshot.

I haven't seen a blue screen in years.

Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

youre fake, i used windows daily for the last year and I got one at least once a month. Maybe I was using it wrong though, idk.
- Ya got bad hardware friend, the only time I've seen a BSOD in the last few years was when something on my work laptop went bad and it had to be replaced. I haven't seen a BSOD on my personal machine since my last DIMM failure.
- That sounds like a user error issue. I use windows at home and work and I also haven't seen a blue screen in years.
- You suck at computers.
- Don't know what you're doing wrong. I abuse the hell out of my computer and the last time I got a blue screen was... 2021?
- Sounds like your hardware is fucked more than anything
- Skill issue
- Change your ram
- and I got one at least once a month.
  
  According to this post, that's the monthly update Microsoft releases.
  
  /j

Windows user here. I don't have a fear of BSODs.

On the other hand, I have "Linux users are elitist jerks" syndrome, which stops me from switching to Linux, due to a fear of Linux users might be elitist jerks. This can be only cured by massive improvements to the Linux community, and a debugger that has an actual GUI for Linux (no, I don't care about whatever cute little script you've written for GDB for a semi-automated testsuite for command line utility that converts one obscure format into another).

Sure, because Linux never has hardware crashes ...

Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they're equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes
I currently have a memory or CPU issues (I have not investigated), which causes my windows install to lag out for a second, but my Linux install just completely crashes the entire system
- No hesitation, pure feedback
I have crashed Linux before. On a Raspberry Pi. I was fucking around with some electronics on a breadboard, hooking them up to the GPIO pins while the thing is running like a dunce, and a male jumper wire connected to Vcc got away from me and dragged across the circuit board near the SoC.

It came back up after I power cycled the board. I've otherwise never actually crashed Linux. I've crashed software running on Linux, sure, but I've never seen a kernel panic in 10 years of penguin flavored computing.
For a while, Linux Mint was significantly less stable than Windows 10 on my previous laptop. Worse, sometimes the system crash would freeze *everything, where it wouldn't even let me do the CTRL ALT F1 to get a basic shell, so the only solution was a full power off/on

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

Greyed out options like that almost always mean the person has been hitting cancel or delay for several warnings already.
- This wasn't their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

Since when did the Blue Screen concept change from being an actual error screen to simply the Windows update screen?

I'm guessing shortly after Windows began implementing aforementioned update screen?

This is the first I've heard it referred to as the Blue Screen.

For reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

I think the whole thing might be a joke? 😀

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Stop spamming Linux. Its annoying
- Exactly.

I'm a Linux user, and I have "X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason" syndrome. Should probably look into wayland...

X does fall over sometimes. Since I've been on Fedora KDE running Wayland, I've had a couple "you're now in recovery mode" moments as well.

Unfortunately as a linux user you may get stuck-on-post syndrome but there are widely available immunizations and treatments available.

Linux will have an equialvent of BSoD soon. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

I've had a black screen of death on Mint. All I was trying to do was crop a video on kdenlive. It black screened on me and somehow even messed up the boot menu so that my Mint was showing up as just Ubuntu. I went straight back to Shotcut after that. I really wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, but so far, Linux, or at least Mint, really hates me. Up till recently, I was still using Mint for my music storage, but it has trouble even moving files onto my phone now. I've pretty much given up.
- if want to diagnose black screen, can use sudo journalctl -S "TIME" to see journal since TIME ("X min ago", timestamp, etc.). may have message on error.
  
  can try syncthing to move file to/from phone

99 percent of the time I've had to deal with a bsod in Windows, it was a bad driver (Intel controllerless Wi-Fi, for one) or a software issue (Malwarebytes Premium or Kaspersky + insert networking app here). Sometimes it's a hardware problem (stupid ASUS laptops with builtin RAM), and rarely, a bad disk clone (gotta do that bcdboot)

This is what got me to switch to Linux (arch btw). I was getting blue/green screens 1-2x a week and it almost always ruined a gaming experience.

Now I can bork my system during an update, but at least I can game smoothly. My system hasn't crashed once while in the middle of something (I have, however, fucked up my system post update and without a Time shift backup ready to go which merited a full reinstall - but it's been a good learning experience overall)

I've used Windows since the late 90s and I've had infinite blue screen loops before. probably a hardware issue but it's not like this fear is irrational.

Seemingly once a year my windows machine goes into an infinite loop of bluescreens. It's because of my wireless/bluetooth card everytime.

Windows will update the driver during one of it's bug updates, fail, then I have to go into safe mode and install the correct driver. Then it's business as usual.

Windows doesn't seem to care that I told it to never update my drivers, it'll still do it once a year.
- For me, it's not that Windows updates my drivers during a big update. It's simply that Windows broke the driver while installing a big update.
  
  I've had it happen where my Wi-Fi driver broke so it could only connect to an unprotected network. So I'd simply setup my phone as a hotspot and download the Wi-Fi driver from the manufacturer's website and reinstall it. That'd immediately fix the issue. Though, actually, that issue hasn't occured in years. The last time it happened, I think, was in the early years of Windows 10.

I'd literally rather risk losing everything to a blue screen than use something arcane, deliberately difficult to use, unnecessarily complicated and bereft of any interesting or useful programs.

Linux is great for niche scenarios, like software development, but horrible for most daily use and any critic who pretends otherwise is ignorant or lying.

Those who know...

As a linux user (atch btw), there are other OSs as well (bsd, unix, temple, etc.)

There are many OS-related diseases. Many Linux users are affected by or at least know someone who suffers from the compulsive need to mention that they're using Arch. Then there's compiler flag addiction, which can develop in Gentoo users. iDependency, the pathological need to purchase any product Apple releases, has financially ruined many macOS users. Windows users' feelings towards Windows Update and the associated increase in heart rate are known to substantially increase the risk of a fatal heart attack.

Knowing how to operate TempleOS is considered a mental disorder under the DSM-5.

My kernel panics in fear of Blue Screen syndrome.

Reminds me of this ad https://youtu.be/DIABO7_BTVc

Wow, I'm having this issue right now. Forgot my current laptop at home, so I took out the old laptop which hasn't seen an update in months.

Now it has randomly crashed, as one does (reason why I asked for a replacement) and I'm here waiting for windows to install all the updates...

I cannot remember the last time I had a blue screen