Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update

[classicdrogn]

It's things like this why my one machine still infected with a Microsoft OS has the drivers for it's wireless card uninstalled and no Ethernet cable attached, while everything else is on various flavors of Linux. The first install was a little scary, sure, fear of the unknown and all... but "Linux still not ready for the desktop" was 20th century, we're living in THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD OF TOMORROW! now, and while distros that require even the clueful to regularly check their man pages and/or spend an hour or two searching forum and Stack Exchange posts do exist, so too do "you put the disk in, it asks you if you want to install, you click yes, and then it works" distros. Or even "you plug the USB stick in, it asks you if you want to reboot from that, you click yes, and it works, then you turn it off and take the USB out when you want to switch back." I'm on Linux 24/7, and the only time I use a command line is when I want to do a system backup.

(Which I should do more often, of course. So should you.)

Certainly, there are the occasional glitch, bug, or vulnerability found. They usually get resolved PDQ, too, and apparently undergo a much more rigorous testing phase, perhaps because "free and open source" is practically a religion for some people.