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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by fredski42 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:36PM (#41021087)
Totally agree here. There should be a mechanism to go back to ‘last known good’ regardless of kernel level issues. Innovations like Fedora Silverblue with ostree and greenboot tech should be adopted by Windows.
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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by gruez on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:15PM (#41021352)
>There should be a mechanism to go back to ‘last known good’ regardless of kernel level issues. Innovations like Fedora Silverblue with ostree and greenboot tech should be adopted by Windows.

Can you explain how they work? AFAIK the issue is that they pushed a bad config file, and that's the thing that caused the crash, not a new driver. Are those systems going to roll back every file ever to try to recover themselves?

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by josephcsible on Saturday July 20, 2024 @10:03PM (#41021816)
> Are those systems going to roll back every file ever to try to recover themselves?

Isn't that totally feasible with things like Btrfs snapshots?

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by AstralStorm on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:26AM (#41024919)
It is, assuming your disk driver or related drivers aren't the ones failing.

Then again, nothing is preventing an update loop here.

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