But what does a Distro within itself change? What file gets put in another place, what gets renamed? What can't you find today that you could yesterday? Yes, if you switch back and forth between Distros, it can happen, but my point is that Windows 11, the same operating system, arbitrarily alters things.

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

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

There's a big difference between pushing a PC hard doing general stuff, and pushing a PC hard gaming. The latter is a true clusterfuck of cludges and workarounds, often with kernel level dumbfuckery in the name of beating cheaters and pirates all while using shoddy rushed out drivers that are poorly tested for one of the most complex subsystems in the OS (graphics).

It's orders of magnitude easier to crash a system with a game than it is with literally any other workload. That's not to say that Windows is reliable. It's objectively not, but the OP does have a big point. I can say with confidence that 100% of the crashes I've had on my PC have been due to gaming and the occasional really poorly written AI load (still GPU driver related).

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.

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No matter how idiot-proof you make technology, God will always create a better idiot. That's why the right way to solve this problem is:

• Make it as hard as possible for users to accidentally do something that is irreversible, and as easy as possible to roll back even serious mistakes. This means, among other things, keeping more than just a single backup. (Apple, I'm talking about your borderline useless iCloud backups here when I say that.)

I doubt MacOS users are any different from other computer users, especially in the post-touchscreen dumbing down of computer knowledge we're seeing where Zoomers and Boomers, according to some surveys, appear to have the same level of skill on average.

I suspect that 90% of the people who get to the "Launch command line" prompt on a list of instructions will also blindly obey the "Don't worry about the warning dialog that comes up that looks like this, just click OK" instruction from the scanner. As a result, I seriously doubt this'll help at all.

I don't think this is really comparable.

Most macOS users probably never touch the terminal and so will hopefully be more likely to read before clicking the red button, and this message doesn't look like a typical macOS elevation prompt.

Yet still released Windows 11.....

Even re-architecting might not fix their problem. It depends upon how much their software people are relying upon bot generated code. Given their famous attention to detail, what's the likelihood that they are pushing out code they do not understand because "it worked"? The hardest bugs do not show up in test harnesses. So if they have built up a giant sticky wad of code they do not understand, there's no going through it all quickly if that is even possible. If they re-architect with the same software dependence on bots, they haven't really solved the underlying issue which is the way they build stuff.