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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Windows can "restart" the driver only if the driver itself detects some problem on the GPU and decides to "restart" the graphics card. But it can't fix crashes. A null pointer dereferente will crash your window box just like it did in linux. And windows can "restart" the card only because modern GPUs allow it, not because Windows does something magic in its software.
So why it doesn't happend the same in linux?
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2005-07-08
Windows can "restart" the driver only if the driver itself detects some problem on the GPU and decides to "restart" the graphics card. But it can't fix crashes. A null pointer dereferente will crash your window box just like it did in linux. And windows can "restart" the card only because modern GPUs allow it, not because Windows does something magic in its software.
Edited 2009-08-15 19:12 UTC