Aw heck, I'll take the downvotes...
/taps head
Can't be responsible for a global IT shutdown when you're only a couple percent of the user base!
43You forget servers, network appliances, and other infrastructure? That's where the bulk of Linux lives, not on Desktops.
75Didn't know 70% was a "couple percent"
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And Mac users, and Windows users that don't use that software...
31Yup my personal and work machines were fine. That said I'm on W10 on both and once I can't be on W10 anymore I'm hoping Linux has further matured for my needs so I don't need W11 onwards. I'm around the Linux communities keeping tabs...!
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It's only funny because it's a blue screen(a very windows thing). Imagine what this will be like when a game inevitably pushes a bad kernel level anti cheat update.
29When such day comes, I hope
prolitariatgamers will unite and push back against kernel-level bullshit11I think a lot of people will have a bad day. Some will swear off PC gaming altogether and switch to console, others might look towards Linux thanks to a friend or a helpful individual online, and a small minority will understand the problem and actively avoid the companies that caused the problem.
It probably won't affect sales of the company involved too much sadly unless everyone point their fingers at the company in the news.
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AFAIK it already did happen to Linux, it's just not as widespread (both Crowdstrike on Linux, and desktop Linux).
11Does windows not have any reliable filesystem snapshot capabilities? Because as soon as I learned about this whole thing my first thought was just that it would be easy to fix just rollback to the snapshot before the update
10More like organizations that couldn't afford Crowdstrike
9Russia could. But did not. Now Kaspersky has happy day.
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Lol
4This would've been me if I didn't work in IT
3Didn't it fuck up Linux in an Enterprise env as well though?
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