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One advantage of Windows over Linux is the fact their graphics stack can easily be restarted while the system/apps/etc are running. The screen just dips to blac
by kiwijamo 2y ago
One advantage of Windows over Linux is the fact their graphics stack can easily be restarted while the system/apps/etc are running. The screen just dips to black for a second and you're back where you were. You can see this anytime you install a new graphics driver, but I have occasionally seen this happen spontaneously when a bug in a graphics driver gets caught and Windows reinitializes the driver. X11 definitely can't do that and I believe neither can Wayland. Not sure whether Windows does this for other things such as networking.
- yuye 2y agoYou can do this manually with Winkey+Ctrl+Shift+B
- mastax 2y agoI once updated my graphics driver in the middle of a CS match. There was a second of black screen, a few seconds of lower frame rate, then everything was back to normal. I was amazed. A lot of applications don’t handle the DEVICE_RESET event, though, so you’re likely to see them crash if the driver resets. Firefox used to have a bug where video playback stopped working after a driver reset, but that’s been fixed.