A thought: Which is the last generation that remembers computers that just hard crashed all the time?
Where you learned to Save Often and Make Backups because even if the App worked great, the whole machine might just blow up at any moment.
I feel like, for me, this pretty much stopped being a thing by the early 2000s. But I also started using Linux as a primary OS in the mid-90s, so mostly saw Win95/ME/etc from afar.
I do remember when X11 would sometimes just explode, killing all my apps.
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I have 7 computers on my desk. Macos, windows 11, ubuntu, steam deck, pi, iphone, ipad.
Guess which one just hard crashes, frequently?
Windows, you betcha. Newish hardware, too. Very sad.
I do manage to crash the mac mini, my daily driver, every few months.
