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I have a corp-maintained Linux laptop; Chrome does not get along with the graphics drivers and will freak out and start flashing white every hour or so. My (co
by Eridrus 9y ago
I have a corp-maintained Linux laptop; Chrome does not get along with the graphics drivers and will freak out and start flashing white every hour or so.
My (corp-maintained) Linux desktop locks up under heavy load for every few days, usually recovers though. The person who sits next to me has it worse though.
And this is with standardized corp-bought hardware.
Any year now though.
- flukus 9y agoSkype doesn't get along with my graphics drivers, On my corp maintained windows desktop it will sometimes peg the CPU/GPU and display garbage on screen until it overheats and hard resets. I guess Windows just isn't ready for the desktop.
- aleksei 9y agoNot an issue with Linux though, you just have incompetent tech maintenance.
- cturner 9y agoThat is a major on-the-desktop constituency, though: company standard builds. If companies struggle to do it, that reflects badly on the system as a solution. There is a difference between something being technically feasible, vs a realised outcome. I have had a shot at building a standard desktop on top of ubuntu. My situation was easier than most in that we only had two desktops to support (a thinkpad and a dell laptop). still, making driver setup work seamlessly is hard. Imagine a company with twenty variations and an audit directive to not give root to users. WSL has huge potential to this market. You get a linux ui and kernel api, and it complements your existing standard build strategy.
- aleksei 9y agoWell yes, it probably isn't such a piece of cake. I was too harsh.
- Eridrus 9y agoWindows seems to run fine even with incompetent maintenance.