My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system. But naturally you must spend an afternoon afterwards to restore your original settings, throw out all the garbage and reinstall all your applications and files.
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.
Only if there’s enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.
I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status is still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.
“Bad elf magic” isn’t a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn’t be loaded because it’s corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)
My biggest issue with windows is it not telling you the exact reason for some weird behavior, and then making it intentionally difficult to go in and modify/fix it yourself.
Linux might break more often, but when it does I’ve ALWAYS been able to recover or restore it far far easier than I ever could on a windows machine, partially due to the actually helpful error messages.
Yep. On Windows the mantra is always “Just reinstall”.
If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system. But naturally you must spend an afternoon afterwards to restore your original settings, throw out all the garbage and reinstall all your applications and files.
Only if there’s enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.
I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database
/var/lib/dpkg/statusis still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.You cab do that with Linux if you use backups/snapshots.
I’ve done it many times using LVM way back when.
“Bad elf magic” isn’t a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn’t be loaded because it’s corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)