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Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Ozy@lemmy.world 129 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is why windows is better, it doesn't suffer from stormy weather. Puny Linux users and their weather based OS

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

I don’t know man, speaking as someone who lives in a hurricane-heavy locale we have to deal with broken windows due to storms with some regularity.