I don’t use voice anyway - everything I do is through an app.

Check out jmp.chat - they route everything, your voice calls and SMS, through XMPP. So voice calls are VOIP. I don’t even have conventional voice service with them.

I have a half dozen of them setup. Any external drive that I use for copying files first gets built with Ventoy and some images.

I’ve never seen an ad in Windows itself. Not sure how people are getting that.

I just retired a 2012 Windows 7 machine that had never received any patches/updates.

Never crashed, never had issues.

I’ve run Windows boxes even longer than that.

Since Win2k, stability improved drastically. XP was another major shift.

Linux is like running NT4 by comparison (and NT4 was damn stable).

Because it doesn’t, by a long shot?

Oh, wow, thanks for the link. A very interesting read.

Now I’m gonna find a QNX 4 demo and run it in a VM, just for the hell of it.

They’ve had HUD in cars since the 80’s.

Granted it sucked, and typically only showed speed, but it was there.