Comment by BuckRogers | Hacker News Reader

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That's a hell of a take that should not be taken seriously. Perhaps if you hold everything else to the same standard. Anything used on macOS or Linux or whatever else fully and completely represents that core platform, then I'd agree.

Anecdotally, I have zero stability problems on my non-ECC consumer-grade 11th gen Intel Windows 11 system. It'll stay up for months, until I decide to shut it down. I had a loose GPU power cable that was causing me problems at a point, but since I reseated everything I haven't had a single issue. That was my fault, things happen. The system is great.

More significantly, I see no difference in stability between our Windows Server platform and Red Hat Enterprise (Oracle) server platform at work either. Work being one of the top 3 largest city governments in the USA.

Meanwhile, I'm lucky if the laptop I installed Ubuntu on will keep from crashing for over an hour of continuous use.

its an accurate take, windows is a mess

didnt red hat have a massive DEI/anti white man scandal? I wouldnt trust their products

the smartest people use and maintain Arch, ergo everything should run on Arch for maximum stability

I don't even think Linux is the definite answer. The majority of these critical apps are just full-screen UIs written in C, C++ or Java with minimal computing and networking, so they could just as easily run on Qubes or BSD without all the constant patching for dumb vulnerabilities that still persist even though Windows is 40 years old.

The problem is the middle management class at hospitals, governments, etc., only know how to use Word and maybe Excel, so they are comfortable with Microsoft, even though it's objectively the worst option if you aren't gaming. So then they make contracts with Microsoft and all the computers run Windows, so all the app developers have to write the apps for Windows.

Not really disagreeing with you, but "staying up for months" isn't a serious bar to clear, it really provides no information in 2024 everything you can install should clear that bar.

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