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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2006-12-22
Mea culpa, you have right those are written, but the point was another: your bad computer experience with Linux to mean that a specific piece of code is bad.
The point was this: you shown an use-case that fails on your machine. It is annoying for sure. In most normal case the video driver crash should not happen.
For me going to Windows I have in tray some popups announcing me that there is a software update for Adobe Reader or Java, some other updates go through Windows update, etc. When there is an exploit go in the wild for Windows is mostly happen because the user do not upgrade it's software stack (mostly Flash). I use mostly Fedora on a my netbook and laptop and Ubuntu on desktop (you have right: I pick this combination for the best video driver stability), I know that updates are only a matter of going one application, no annoying popup, etc.
Showing an use case that annoy an user (like using data because of data corruption, video drivers problems) on any OS should be done in a way that don't appear from outside as an anti-X/anti-Linux FUD. I am not sure if you intend it, but this is how it looks by far.
I did worked with RHEL and Linux driver stack for an air traffic controller software and the drivers are guaranteed to not crash for at least 2 years (we used nVidia Quadro configurations). The entire software stack should not let the machine off more than 2-3 minute per year for entire controlling system (meaning for 10 machines), so they really work (almost) flawless. Because 2-3 minutes does not mean only video driver freeze, can mean network problems, memory leaks, etc.
And for them Windows (I talk about client software, no server) was out of the options. Either 2K, XP or Vista. The alternate OS could be only Solaris.