Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Aug 2009 17:55 UTC
Over the past couple of months, and especially over the past couple of weeks, I've been working very hard to write and complete my thesis. I performed all the work on Windows 7, but now that the thesis is finally done, submitted, and accepted, I installed Ubuntu - and immediately I was reminded of why I do not do any serious work on Linux: the train wreck that is X.org.
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2005-08-12
You don't get it, do you?
Under no circumstances should resizing a video window result in a complete system failure. That is BAD DESIGN. As I said: bugs happen. however, if your framework design is sound, a bug will not affect critical systems - in this case, my applications and my data.
Just like a bad app shouldn't take the whole system under, but in Windows it can and does, games in particular are a horrific offender. That is BAD DESIGN. I don't understand this holding it up as a holy grail. Sure, it's less likely to hose you when resizing a video (which btw, I haven't had happen), but there are other ways it'll manage to do it, just as with any operating system.
Edited 2009-08-15 19:09 UTC