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It is even better with GNU/Linux! I have never witnessed a software crashing the whole system.
by daedhel 15y ago
It is even better with GNU/Linux! I have never witnessed a software crashing the whole system.
- ZoFreX 15y agoWhole system? No. X? Yes. And when X crashes so does every other program I am using, so other than the shorter recovery time that isn't a lot better than crashing the whole system (ok, I have to admit there is much less chance of catastrophic disk corruption, as all the higher level processes will continue unimpeeded). While I do absolutely love being able to ctrl+alt+F(x) no matter how bad things are and regain control, the fact that Windows has been able to recover from the window manager, graphics card driver, or even graphics card crashing without my music even skipping a beat for years now makes the reliance on X (by far the least stable component at least on my install) feel wholly unnecessary.
- rbanffy 15y ago> by far the least stable component at least on my install This is often the result of bad graphics drivers. Would you like to share your setup? My laptop has that ACPI bug (in that the BIOS enables ACPI on peripherals and reports they don't support it back to the OS which then makes terrible decisions). I had to change my screensaver to a non-3D one to prevent the machine from seizing when entering low-power mode.