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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2006-01-10
Someone may have already stated this, since I don't feel like reading through all 100+ comments.
But this is some serious crap coming from "It doesn't do anything in vista / 7" I have had a full on BSOD from a graphics driver in both of them.
I haven't had X crash in many many moons. Even on my HP Touchsmart TX2 I don't have any Xorg crashes running Debian Sid with the fglrx driver (even though it throws up a lot of errors, since it's not made to work fully with kernel 2.6.30)
Problems with Evolution crashing? Have you been using the same configuration files for a long time? I always use Evolution, and it stays open for days on end, with only a very random crash.
Couldn't say the same for Outlook, which will just randomly stop receiving / delivering email and most times just requires a reboot of the entire computer to work again....
Most things (like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution) has a recover feature.
You probably are running an ATI video card, which has notoriously BAD drivers, yet you blame X.org? My video playback is generally much smoother using Compiz and a nVidia driver than it is under Vista/7. Not to mention that PowerDVD constantly crashes. If it weren't for having a blu-ray drive, I'd not use it. Compiz works great with Video, yet Aero gets turned off every time I start a movie?
It seems to me that the only thing that improved with Vista and 7's new graphics driver model is that you generally can use the driver right after installing, instead of needing to reboot... but only to a certain extent.
Pretty much most of this commentary on the inadequacies of X.org are really down to a closed source driver that the X.org developers have NO control over.
Fix your evolution config (you know you can remove the .evolution, but save out your inbox folders first. Or better yet, use Imap so you don't lose your email.) And change your video card (or driver) and stop your complaining. Sometimes you come off as a whiny little child, Thom.