On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:51 PM, jdd
Le 25/03/2016 18:09, Chris Murphy a écrit :
Hardware driver and kernel reliability has improved immensely between XP and 10, it's a significantly more stable operating system with far fewer instances of kernel panics / blue screens.
I don't know how you can prove that.
The engineers have said that this was a design goal for a long time, when it was implemented I don't know, and no I can't prove that the design goal translates into reality. That part is anecdotal, by talking to Windows sysadmins, who have other problems, of course, with Windows 10. But quality and stability of the OS itself isn't one of them, they've generally been positive about it.
the last few days, I had probably 5 Windows 10 crashes, that is more than one fore each hour of use, on my new windows 10 tablet, but instead of a blue screen one have now a crash report lasting long before releasing. In this respect I had less problems with Windows 7.
But I don't use this system sufficiently to make statistics.
I know nothing about recent development system of Microsoft, but I guess they may have also an automated system and, for sure an immense beta tester base (I was one of them in an other life :-)
If they have one tiny edge case bug affecting 1%, it affects 2 million users. It's an instantly massive support problem.
"If something goes bad, we'll just tell them to use System Restore" I don't know what.
I *never* on more than 20 years use seen Windows repair system repair anything, even problems I could fix myself in minutes. To restore you have to get a restore disk, and pretty often Windows refuses to make one. last week, Windows 10 insisted to use dvd on the same tablet, which of course have no dvd (I was happy to have an usb dvd writer). Not possible on sd card nor usb stick...
Windows 8 and 10 have the concept of "refresh" and "reset" now. The refresh keeps your data, system settings are returned to defaults, applications from the app store are kept installed, applications installed outside the Microsoft app store are erased. And then a reset blows away everything including OS updates, it basically reformats the primary volume and reinstalls from a restore partition on the drive.
That said I neither could restore a linux system after a crash (no problem for data). It was much faster to reinstall the system than to fix the handful of setup needed by the hardware change
by the way I didn't read anything about SSD (see subject), but noticed on new install a "ssd" option in fstab for file systems
ssd is a Btrfs specific mount option. It's used automatically if an SSD is detected, so it isn't needed as an explicit mount option unless you want the other ssd allocating algorithm, ssd_spread, or if you're using Btrfs on a layer that masks the fact it's on an ssd. The ssd option isn't the same as discard. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org