I've worked and developed on Linux, for Linux, for 10+ years, I've seen my fair share of panics, especially using the bleeding edge releases. Most (not all!) of them were my own making though. :>
Yeah I've been using Linux exclusively for maybe 9 years and the only time I've ever seen a kernel panic was when I was messing around with Gentoo on a cheap machine I have just for that sort of screwing around, and I accidentally told it to literally overwrite the kernel. It got pretty far giving itself a lobotomy before it died, too.
Meanwhile, the last time I used Windows (in order to install Linux on a new laptop, lol), it blue screened four times just trying to mount a simple USB flash drive.
> it blue screened four times just trying to mount a simple USB flash drive
With Linux these problems can typically be solved by googling it on your phone then appending a text file with some nonsense string you found on a 10 year old forum post. I'm still holding my breath for Windows to catch up with that level of UX.
logicprog|2 years ago
Meanwhile, the last time I used Windows (in order to install Linux on a new laptop, lol), it blue screened four times just trying to mount a simple USB flash drive.
13of40|2 years ago
With Linux these problems can typically be solved by googling it on your phone then appending a text file with some nonsense string you found on a 10 year old forum post. I'm still holding my breath for Windows to catch up with that level of UX.