Currently an M4 too. Before that Intel I5. Before that PowerPC G4. :-)

Intel NUC i5, only to run Win11. My 10+ year old i7 that's had one RAM upgrade and 3 GPU upgrades still worked and played games just fine, but it was stuck at Win10 during to the CPU generation cutoff.

All my PCs dual boot Windows and Linux, since around 1994.

I've been using Linux since around 1994. Even in the same family things diverge, Ubuntu and Debian for example.

The funny thing is that Apple sometimes asks users to copy-paste a string they provide into a terminal. For example when creating a flash drive with an installable version of macOS.

LOL. As if Linux doesn't rename things, change folders, etc. Or even worse you change bistro and its all different.

Locally, deep in a California suburbia, we have large numbers of coyotes visiting the neighborhood at night. People lose cats all the time.

Nope. Computer Vision is an AI topic. It has been from the start. Facial Recognition is just another Computer Vision problem.

Computer Vision, and Facial Recognition, has been happening long before Machine Learning and other now common AI implementations.

Your pet probably came pre-chipped. You probably had nothing to do with the decision. The shelter or breeder chipped the dog before you ever saw it.

Open Macs experienced the same problems as Windows. And closed Windows boxes (like NUC) experience the same reliability as Macs.

The Mac advantage is that they moved away from open configurations. The last open Mac, the Pro, has been dropped.

My desk has a Mac mini and an Intel NUC. They are equally reliable.

It's consumer desktop vs server. Most of the annoyance is trying to monazite the user.

When you get to servers, it's a different story, and complaints mostly boil down to what platform people learned first. The Linux centric bitch about Windows. The Windows centric bitch about Linux.

It's not the crappy hardware itself, it's the crappy drivers that supports it that cause the crashes or flakiness. In particular, in Linux in this Dell laptop case.

Again, in this case, it was NOT Windows having the problem, it was Linux. Both OS are vulnerable to flaky drivers.

Nope. With respect to Windows vs Linux vs Mac crashes, higher Windows numbers are a result of 3rd party software. Linux and Mac have an advantage of being unsupported by a lot of crappy hardware/software.

Nope. Never said that. I said that on the exact same high quality hardware with 3rd party drivers from highly reputable sources, Windows and Linux are both highly reliable.

Not when I get to pick the computer.

Semantics. In this discussion among the technically inclined we are talking about crashes. Note article title. The notion that Windows is inherently worse than Linux is an urban myth.

There is your problem above. While you focus on a monovariant, that for some reason, the only problem is drivers.

The topic is crashes, in case you haven't noticed the article title. Guess what it usually responsible for crashes, Windows, Linux, and Mac?

Now you are getting to the real problem. People favor what they already know, and foolishly try to replicate the ways of one platform on another. They fight the platform. Problems result.

No, the anti-tachyon emitters restore the galactic ether. ;-)

Not really. Like drivers, antivirus/antimalware can be done poorly too. My windows boot is as stable as my Linux boot, and I've been running antivirus for decades. And Linux is just as vulnerable to poorly written kernel level software Linux being someone ignore by hardware and software vendors helps, like with Apple, less 3rd party software to screw things up.

No, that is a niche of the pro market.

Nope. They'll point out that Macs are typically closed boxes where Apple has total control, and supplies all the drivers. Anything the user adds will be USB, thunderbolt, or HDMI.

Pretty much like an Intel or ASUS NUC. The NUC being pretty reliable too as a result.