Microsoft finds an unlikely ally — Linux developer defends Windows against BSoD jokes

It turns out unreliable hardware might have more to do with your Windows BSoD errors than software bugs.

Windows and Linux have a long-standing rivalry as operating systems. And while the former holds a competitive advantage over the latter due to its massive market share and broad app compatibility, Linux is starting to gain some traction, especially after Microsoft ended Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025.

For instance, Zorin OS, a Linux distro, gained approximately 780,000 users from Windows, a little over a month after Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10. While this might be coincidental, the timing is impeccable and hard to ignore, potentially suggesting that the operating system's death fueled the transition.

Similarly, Bazzite recently delivered a petabyte of ISOs in a single month as Windows 10 users continue to seek for alternatives beyond Microsoft's Windows 11 forced updates.

BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) errors are synonymous with Microsoft's Windows operating system, designed to alert users of a critical system failure related to a specific operation, with the potential to cause a device crash and forced reboot.

Microsoft has been trolled by users due to frequent BSoD errors, which seem to be becoming a common occurrence when interacting with the Windows operating system.

But perhaps more interestingly, Linux developer Linus Torvalds recently defended Microsoft's BSoD errors in Windows while building a PC with Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips (via IT'S FOSS).

Torvalds reiterated the importance of having the ECC on your PC, which essentially makes it more reliable. He warned that the absence of the ECC on your device could lead to critical memory issues.