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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And for the 451855528th time: switch to Linux already. Why do people keep paying for this shit? Every time I get excuses. I switched to a Linux desktop 20 years ago. There were enout moments that I needed to tweak things to make it work but for the last decade, I haven't had any issues.

If you're dum enough to use windows for servers then you just deserve to burn, if you make that decision then its all on you.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Windows or Linux. Crowdstrike has in fact broken Linux installs in a fairly similar way before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don’t worry, if it had broken in Linux, these same posters would be railing on CrowdStrike directly, but since it broke on Windows, obviously Microsoft is to blame.