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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2005-07-08
The simple FACT of the matter is that Windows Vista and Windows 7 are FAR better at mitigating possible issue sin the graphics stack than X is. That's all my rant brought forward, and I have yet to see anyone provide proper argumentation refuting that fact.
Except you didn't state a fact, at least not one that everyone agrees on. You stated a personal experience you had. Other people, such as myself, have had different personal experiences, where graphics stack crashes in Vista brought down the entire OS and caused actual data loss on the filesystem. At least when X crashes on linux/FreeBSD, I can restart X. When the graphics system on Vista crashes, I end up with about 2 megs of data in Found.000. Now why can't Vista learn from Linux/Xorg?
Adam
Edited 2009-08-17 00:17 UTC