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I'm an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.

I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!

I don't have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Another glorious victory in the OS wars.

Worth noting my linux pc has never crashed out of nowhere on its own. Its usually immediately after i change something

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hardware problems like faulty RAM are a thing, though. Linux is good, but it is not magic. Not every crash is a software problem.

I once had a faulty cpu and windows denied booting. I was able to tell grub to load the kernel an run off of 3 instead of four cores.

I had that machine running another 2 years or so.

I had my first full freeze today. Ive been using mint for months now. I think steam was having a meltdown but, I also had a finicky program running in bottles and my computer isn't top of the line so that was a lot of resource use lol.