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> Linux isn't exactly reliable either... I'm sorry but that OS is barely capable of outputting a stable HDMI signal, god help you if you are on a laptop with external monitor.

This is demonstrably false, given the amount of people that game on Linux nowadays.

> System upgrades always make me nervous because there is a very real chance of something getting fucked up and my screen staying black the next time it boots, having to go into a TTY, and manually fixing stuff up or booting the previous version that was still saved in GRUB.

I had this happen to me once. Timeshift was painless to use, and in about 15 minutes I had my machine up and running again, and could apply all updates properly afterwards. If anything it made me bolder lol.



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