Ahh, people going 'OMG Windows 98!1!!' for some random use case where the system runs isolated from any network. Like in-flight TV etc.
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Hmm, yes, I guess so. My definition of 'critical' is whether a restart of it affects the operation of what it controls

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And I would most certainly not advocate building anything NEW based on it, but if you have an existing, stable config ...
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Basically, most of the rep Windows has comes from people running it at home, on cheap hardware, with bad software.
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Properly configured, stripped to the bare minimum, you can rival BSD uptimes on the right hardware


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But that requires work, and care, and like all things is something that gets saved on. Linux would be no different.
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The most important caveat for a stable Windows is to not run any Microsoft application software on it, basically
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