While in general it is less problematic, it happens with Linux too. I have a laptop with integrated Intel GPU. Not powerful but good enough to play a few simpl

While in general it is less problematic, it happens with Linux too. I have a laptop with integrated Intel GPU. Not powerful but good enough to play a few simple games from time to time. After updating from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 most games won't work properly anymore: they run fine for a while but then the display freezes for a few seconds. Most of the time after that is start working again, some other times the game will crash (I am blaming the GPU since sound and games logic continue regularly, and CPU usage is unaffected). I have also a raspberry pi. One day, after a routine update the sound started behaving weirdly, sometimes going faster/slower, some other times burping weird sounds. As with most audio problems in Linux the solution was simply to nuke pulseaudio from the system.