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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2006-12-07
I don't see a single argument why is X to blame. X is just a single layer in UNIXish graphics software. There are quite a few layers above it if one uses something like Gnome or KDE. Even plain X applications are often linked with "Gnome support" or "KDE support", although they don't need that to work, but some people like to have everything "integrated".
I tried both, Gnome and KDE and never managed them to work satisfactory, so I've given them up. I preferred KDE, but it used to crash, at least, once a day.
I must admit that I've compiled some of the X applications myself (like Xine), and I used a lot of
"--disable-this" and "--disable-that" switches while running configure. That means that I have drastically reduced a number of dependencies which are enabled by default.
Anyway, I don't have crashes on my machine, and have no problems watching DVD movies (encrypted too), Windows Media files, FLV files, etc.
So, I don't think that all the problems are in X layer.
In fact, in world of Linux, it is that it is not easy to pick a good application among couple of alternatives. Majority of desktop software doesn't bring any serious income to its authors, so bad software, or bad packaging of good a good software is not causing anyone to go bankrupt or something. Good software may coexist with bad software forever. The only way is test everything and find out what works.