Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn’t know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU
That could easily be because far more people use Windows though. It’s a hit and a miss with Windows, on my work laptop it hasn’t been very stable, yet my desktop has never had an issue with it and is running pretty flawlessly.
I’ve repeatedly changed hardware on Windows and never had anything break really. Even going from an Nvidia card to an AMD one went without a hitch.
I guess this is kind of my point: the user being able to break the OS is an OS failure, not a user one. The OS should have prevented the user from doing something fatal in the first place. Windows isn’t perfect in that regard but imo quite a bit stronger. That’s what makes Linux more attractive to tinkerers at the moment, but it scares casual users off. I really want Linux desktops to improve on this so it’s more attractive to casual users. Or a recovery tool, it’d be great if after making a change and ending up with boot failures Linux would automatically roll back the change. I know some systems have snapshots that you can roll back to but iirc you have to do that manually.