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@breiter @thelinuxEXP Linux systems have bootloops too.

I imagine I can give you a one-line shell command that will make your computer unbootable. Does that mean it’s just pure incompetence from the kernel developers? Of course not.

@bouncing @breiter There’s a difference between “send me a script that wipes /“ and “a kernel module is faulty therefore you can’t boot anymore”.

@thelinuxEXP @breiter Is there? Surely a kernel module which, by law, “has the same access” as Microsoft’s first party ones, could make a system unbootable.

I’m not saying there’s not a bug that can be fixed but basically by definition, that whole rule is a security and reliability hole.

Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@bouncing @breiter I’m not arguing against that at all, I’m saying it’s on MS to make sure that after this issue, their customers can reboot their systems and get back to work.

@thelinuxEXP @bouncing @breiter

they have been doing that though, even though they aren't technically obligated to since it's a third party vendor issue

during the worst of it on friday they even pulled in support from other departments (office, azure, etc) to handle the additional support load from customers calling in