@ainmosni Problem itself is certainly not the fault...

Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈's posts Post Back to profile

Problem itself is certainly not the fault of Windows, but I think such a great stoppage in the critical operation is.

On Linux rollback using Btrfs snapshots is something common. You can uninstall faulty program, rollback to older version and pin it to prevent updating without even booting the system from the disk. There is also a world of immutable distros, which propably would just boot to previous (pre-update) slot and show notification.

Meanwhile entering Windows recovery mode for a temporary fix looks like that: https://101010.pl/@didek/112812731137102264

Like 19 July at 14:35 | Wall-to-wall | Open on 101010.pl

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Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

@didek And yet, if you give an incompetent corp root/kernel access, all those things won't help depending on the error.

Sure, this exact problem would be easy to fix, but what if it caused data loss? The OS is not worth much if all the user data is gone.

I really prefer linux over windows, but this problem wasn't caused by windows.

19 July at 14:38 | Open on berlin.social

Dawid Rejowski

@ainmosni

I see we both agree. Again, I also think the problem is not Windows fault at all.

Just wanted to point out some of Windows related issues showing their relevance alongside all of this.

19 July at 14:44 | Open on 101010.pl

Magnus Ahltorp

@didek @ainmosni Windows installations are on average more susceptible to people selling bad software. This due to both causation and correlation.

19 July at 19:33 | Open on mastodon.nu

Joe | 🇵🇸 | 🧑‍💻

@ainmosni For data loss, the solution is easy: "backup before update", which always should be done especially with seriously needed devices.

19 July at 16:50 | Open on mastodon.social