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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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I have never been as bothered by a catastrophic linux GUI crash that caused me to pull up a separate machine to walk me through recovering in the command line than I have been by Blue Screen's of Death.
And it's definitely because I know with the linux failure it was my fault, and won't happen again if i learn what caused it and change my behavior (or the system's behavior).
The same is very much not true with window's BSoD, where each time i simply lose more trust in the system.