There's a Polish electronics forum that's infamous because it's kind of actively hostile to them noobs. "Blacklisted power supply, closing thread." is a micro meme at this point.

Ye some of the weirdest issues I've fixed have been PSU related.

I had a PC come to me that would boot fine, but if you opened the CD drive it'd shut off instantly.

I concur. A lot of “flakey” issues can be traced to poor quality power supplies. That’s a component that doesn’t get any attention in spec sheets other than a max power rating and I think a lot of manufacturers skimp there. As long as the system boots up and runs for a few minutes, they ship it.

I could see that:

- Firefox may be more prevalent on those using Linux, since FF is less “corporate” than Chrome or Edge.

- People using Linux are probably putting Linux on old machines that had versions of Windows that are no longer supported.

However, what I can’t say next is “PSUs would get old and stop putting out as much” because that doesn’t tend to happen. They just die.

Those running Linux on some old tower may hook up too many devices to an underpowered PSU which could cause problems, but I doubt this is the norm.

If it’s not PSUs, what is it? It’s not electromagnetic radiation doing the bitflipping because that’s too rare.

Maybe bitflips could be caused by low-quality peripherals.

People also don’t vacuum out laptops like they used to vacuum out towers and desktops, so maybe it’s dust.

Or maybe it’s all a ruse and FF is buggy, but they don’t have time to figure it out.

It's the powerhouse of the dell :p

yeah dell consumer pc psus were so awful