CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Probably would have been worse if this was on Linux. That's like 90% of the internet.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Good thing is the kind of people making decisions based on buzzword-bongo filled PR campaigns like Crowdstrike's are already forcing their IT to use Windows anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It was a serious ask to install it from auditors that don't know what the fuck they are doing. On all ec2 machines for "reasons" I'm sure there are companies out there pushed into doing this because they don't have people willing to die on those hills.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Yes and no. Linux is inherently more diverse. All the different distros doing things in different ways, sometimes with different components. It's not as much of a monoculture as Windows. There isn't a Linux that 90% is.

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