Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete...
by baryphonic on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:18AM
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I recently had an issue with my Linux Mint desktop where a power outage somehow introduced a hard disk error that was not easy to resolve (unless one knows exactly what to look for in the logs and knows the correct `fsck` incantation from memory). Linux is definitely still worth it, but the "just works" factor is just significantly less than MacOS.
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Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete...
by jacquesm on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:13AM
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If that had happened to you on Windows instead of doing an fsck you might have had to re-install from scratch. And I've had OS/X helpfully suggest to 'initialize a harddrive' with some perfectly good data and a borked boot block on it.
Fixing that took a lot more magic than just an fsck, no matter what the incantations. Once you have trouble at that level any OS will be tricky to get going again because a lot of the underlying assumptions have failed.
Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete...
by baryphonic on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:33PM
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> If that had happened to you on Windows instead of doing an fsck you might have had to re-install from scratch.
Ha, yeah, that's true. I've had better luck with MacOS. I did have a total drive failure once, but the hardware had gone bad.