Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.
No, they wouldn’t. I’ve seen so many posts on r/techsupport and r/windows from people complaining about Search or other OS functions not working. They always claimed that they “did nothing”, only afterwards it would turn out they used some of that crap software, which broke half the OS.
laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled
That could’ve been the reason for A LOT of problems too.
Let me put it this way: me, my family, and my business all run essentially clean Windows + Defender. Nothing else. And by “clean” I mean: install from ISO, leave as is.
Last time I had a BSOD was three years ago which was around 6 years since the previous one.
Meanwhile, the Tuxedo OS that I’m running right now (and, generally, enjoy very much) just hung up completely when I put it to sleep and then awoke. As in: not even the cursor moved when I moved the mouse, had to hard reset the thing. Things like that just don’t happen in the Windows world these days.
The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.
It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.
Out of curiosity - were you using any “debloaters” or other scripts/apps that were supposed to “fix” or “speed up” Windows?
Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.
No, they wouldn’t. I’ve seen so many posts on r/techsupport and r/windows from people complaining about Search or other OS functions not working. They always claimed that they “did nothing”, only afterwards it would turn out they used some of that crap software, which broke half the OS.
That could’ve been the reason for A LOT of problems too.
Let me put it this way: me, my family, and my business all run essentially clean Windows + Defender. Nothing else. And by “clean” I mean: install from ISO, leave as is.
Last time I had a BSOD was three years ago which was around 6 years since the previous one.
Meanwhile, the Tuxedo OS that I’m running right now (and, generally, enjoy very much) just hung up completely when I put it to sleep and then awoke. As in: not even the cursor moved when I moved the mouse, had to hard reset the thing. Things like that just don’t happen in the Windows world these days.
The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.
It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.