Not just hardware, but drivers and software as well. How many Mac users run software with kernel level dumbfuckery like easy-anti-cheat or some anti piracy crap? How many Mac users update to a new GPU driver every two weeks? (Multiple of which have been subject to a recall / downgrade advice over the past few years).

What problems? If your system is going down every week then something is either fundamentally broken (maybe a good time to reinstall) or you have some dodgy hardware. Windows is by far less stable than the others, I'll give you that, but not to the "every single week" level of unstable.

Not dubious, just run of the mill, but also it goes beyond that. Most crashes you get are driver / hardware related. Apple does hardware qualification, users don't. Heck half the time not even the likes of Dell or HP test their systems properly, nor release proper drivers.

Also how many of those crashes are related to fast paced update of graphics drivers? NVIDIA releases a new game ready driver every few weeks, often buggy. Games are released in a dodgy state that often crash and due to their inclusion of kernel level fuckery frequently take out the system with it, or worse, have dodgy shit running in the background.

Apple doesn't just not have a mix of hardware, it avoids an entire subset of the most OS screwing field of PCs: Gaming.

Yes and no. Often it's driver related. That thing that users are doing may be as simple as running a set of buggy NVIDIA drivers, or a game with kernel level anticheat shit close to release date.

Its easy to blame the user here, but ultimately the user is doing normal user things. There's a lot of blame to be given to developers if a user is able to crash their system doing something they are supposed to be doing and should be expected to do.

(My last had crash to a forced restart was on a Helldivers II loading screen. That game is infamously buggy, and developers have patched quite a few crash related issues over the past year.

Nah, literally something that hasn't happened to 99.99% of users in the past 20 years.

Well there's your problem. Stop using Windows ME. It's very clear that if your windows is breaking to the point of needing a reinstall / repair and it's a "frequent occurrence" then my unfortunate sir, *you* are the problem. Not even TFA is talking about that.

Have you ever noticed why no one celebrates Patch Tuesday in the pub? It's because they're waiting by consoles waiting for stuff to break.

Windows, client and server, are a house of cards. This goes far back in history. The citations you challenge are each provably wrong. Ever wonder why the cloud isn't rife with Windows servers? There's a reason for that. Cloud Native Windows is almost an oxymoron. Linux and to a lesser extent, BSD, have taken over that space.

In so many ways, Windows is now a legacy data OS in data centers and for good reason. It's developer community has all but collapsed. It's backwards compatibility with other house-of-cards platforms like dot-net have put ball-and-chains around its neck.

The additions of tawdry pre-release-in-production AI with Co-Pilot causes new train wrecks each and every day.

No serious services developer uses Windows as a new development platform. The metaphors you diss are a dodge. You know exactly what the remarks are about. Windows continues to be a sieve for security. Linux and BSD are far more difficult to breach, correctly configured-- and it doesn't take much.

As a developer, if you are one, Microsoft is putting you to the pasture. Have fun eating oats.

Early 2000's. Numerous versions of MacOS before OS X somehow had worse stability than many Windows computers.

I think you're underestimating Microsoft's ability to fuck up almost everything they touch.

I used a Macbook Pro for 14 years and I saw exactly one crash. It happened within the first hour or two of use, but after updating the OS I never saw a crash again. Now Spinning Beach Balls of Death are a very different story. They weren't extremely common, but there were a couple of situations in which I could produce them consistently. In unexpected situations, there was a small chance of recovery if I waited for the action to time out or resolve, but most of the time it persisted indefinitely.

The situation in which it would put me reminds me of something I witnessed in high school. One of my classmates had big, bushy eyebrows and he showed up one Monday with a clean brow. Nobody would tell me who did it, but they were quick to say that the culprit only shaved one eyebrow, leaving him to decide if he wanted to walk around with a big, bushy brow on only one side or shave the other one off himself for symmetry. He chose the latter. In a lesser manner, that's how I would feel when I got the Spinning Beach Ball of Death - instead of crashing, it would leave me to decide how long I should wait before giving up and rebooting (shaving my other eyebrow).

Really? That's the only Funny on this rich target? And doesn't even strike me as especially funny. Maybe later?

But now I can't even remember if the real FBI director's passing got a mention on today's Slashdot.

Other half of the dual boot: Linux hasn't crashed, although it has had random issues with starting up slowly, up to 2 minutes sometimes, or random dialog boxes and windows in KDE will lock up for 10 - 20 seconds and I can't interact with them. All kind of applications.

I've had a bunch of crashes in Windows this year when gaming, I suspect nVidia drivers, because the crashes stopped after an update.

These were hard crashes that rebooted the computer all the way back to BIOS immediately after the game locked up.

Is there any other kind? Every photo of him I've seen looks like the result of a poorly formed query processed by a janky LLM.

Maybe it's the ghost of Windows 3.1 haunting Microsoft for giving it such a shitty legacy.

Then again, perhaps it's the essence of MacOS, taunting Windows users.

I'm not questioning you. I'd read it just on the author if it was available around here. Rather you should file it as among my personal problems. First, I'm trying to get rid of all of my books, not buy new ones. Second, I choose to live in Japan where the libraries basically treat English books as an afterthought. (By using lots of libraries I'm able to find enough good stuff to read, and I'm reading more and more Japanese books these years.) Third, my second and final Amazon purchase was decades ago...