Aw heck, I'll take the downvotes...
/taps head
Can't be responsible for a global IT shutdown when you're only a couple percent of the user base!
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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You forget servers, network appliances, and other infrastructure? That's where the bulk of Linux lives, not on Desktops.
Nuh-uh, I saw a Steam survey that said that less than two percent of computers use Linux!
What do you mean by "the headless internet backbone servers, Android phones, and smart appliances don't have Steam"?
The latest steam survey says 2.08% use Linux.
That's more than 2%, I bet you feel pretty ridiculous now!
The absolute ridicule! I'm sorry, but I might not survive this! How could this come to be?!
Didn't know 70% was a "couple percent"
And Mac users, and Windows users that don't use that software...
It's only funny because it's a blue screen(a very windows thing). Imagine what this will be like when a game inevitably pushes a bad kernel level anti cheat update.
When such day comes, I hope ~~prolitariat~~ gamers will unite and push back against kernel-level bullshit
When the gamers rose up they elected Trump, I wouldn't hold out hopes for anti-capitalist action.
I doubt that gamers rising up and voting for Trump. Unless US political system is SO fucked. In EU upset gamers are most likely to vote for Pirate Party.
I think a lot of people will have a bad day. Some will swear off PC gaming altogether and switch to console, others might look towards Linux thanks to a friend or a helpful individual online, and a small minority will understand the problem and actively avoid the companies that caused the problem.
It probably won't affect sales of the company involved too much sadly unless everyone point their fingers at the company in the news.
AFAIK it already did happen to Linux, it's just not as widespread (both Crowdstrike on Linux, and desktop Linux).
Does windows not have any reliable filesystem snapshot capabilities? Because as soon as I learned about this whole thing my first thought was just that it would be easy to fix just rollback to the snapshot before the update
Hard to roll back when you're stuck in a boot loop
Not to mention the patch being applied was being applied at boot, so rollback > patch > crash; repeat
Wait did they not stop serving the broken release to clients even after they realized the problem? I guess I wouldn't be surprised but wow that's worse than I expected
The fault was a driver, so if the faulty driver loaded at boot the machine would bsod again. If the machine got network before the driver loaded there was a chance that it could download and install the fixed driver
Not if you can boot from an old snapshot like BTRFS and ZFS can
More like organizations that couldn't afford Crowdstrike
Russia could. But did not. Now Kaspersky has happy day.
Lol
This would've been me if I didn't work in IT
Didn't it fuck up Linux in an Enterprise env as well though?