What are some things you think tech people presume others know, and know how to do? (lemm.ee)

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It's helpful to take a few steps back from time to time to reassess where we're each coming from on our knowledge of tech (or anything) to better communicate.

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[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Windows has always had awful error codes. A BSOD with some (made up) 0x00000231a would get “Kernel gobbledygook” as the search result. Completely useless. It was and still is awful. Only by digging in to logs, event manger, and anything else you can imagine you might be able to correct the issue. However, I will offer that Windows has been stable AF since 7, and I could count the number of times it’s crashed on me in the last decade or so on one hand, and the times it did crash or was because of either a change I made or a bad driver update.

I have a love/hate relationship with Apple. I despise how everything is locked down and they spare no effort to make sure you stay in their walled garden and play with their toys under their supervision. OTOH, shit almost never breaks. Regular PC? You’re free to wreck it, and I love that.

[-] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

You bring up a good point about the stability of Windows. I've been using Linux Mint for the past few months and am quite happy with it. However I've experienced at least four different times when the OS has become completely locked; I couldn't do anything and had to hard reset. Not a deal breaker for me but it made me think about how that never happens to me in Windows any more.

[-] Longpork2@lemmy.nz 4 points 9 months ago

The OS, or the window manager?

In 95% of cases, switching to a secondary tty(via ctrl+alt+f) will give you access to find and kill whatever is hanging without requiring a reboot.

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