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Old 11-03-2019, 02:35 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Well, it's good to know that someone has had consistent, trouble-free Windows upgrades.
Windows XP, 7, and 10 have all committed suicide on me. XP suddenly thought another partition was C and then tried to "fix" itself by "finding" its files on D and failed. Windows 7 has done similar things. I love UUIDs and mount points so much. I can only hope Windows uses UUIDs as well these days.

For Windows 10 I don't even really know what happened except it wouldn't boot after updating. There's the Windows boot repair thing but that didn't work out. I suspect it had something to do with BIOS vs UEFI[1] but unfortunately you can't just boot a live CD and install a BIOS vs. EFI bootloader at will. I've done the latter plenty of times after installing Windows.

My Linux install has been running problem-free since 2011, 5 Debian versions ago. It Just Works™. Very refreshing.

[1] Windows 10 supports something older Windows doesn't: you can just stick the drive into another PC without having to run some kind of repair install. I was happy to discover this a few years back when I switched from an '09 motherboard to a '14 motherboard, but of course Windows was running in BIOS mode. This all went fine for about a year and a half, maybe two, so maybe BIOS vs. EFI isn't actually the cause but I don't know what else it could've been.
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Originally Posted by pazos View Post
From the point of view of a developer, maintaining a codebase that works across the different distros is harder than maintaining the macos/windows counterpart.
For a given value of works. There's seemingly no end to the (modern!) stuff I see that looks terrible on Windows <8/10 or on 10. Often it doesn't have too much trouble running I suppose.

Recently Windows 10 somehow got rid of some DLL half my programs depended on though…

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