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PC insomnia
T wrote:
The bad news is that Windows is not a stable operating system. Have you seen a kernel panic ? That's a measure of stability. If you stripped the DE off the thing, I'm sure the core of the OS would be quite stable. The layers on top, not so much. Is Windows 10 a "usable OS" ? Opinions vary *a lot* on that. I can't run a benchmark in peace, on a Win10 machine. In my second benchmark run, some maintenance activity will randomly start, ruining my collected results. I can even wait two hours for the OS to "quiet down". Then, as soon as I run my benchmark, Lisa Simpson will start one of her maintenance processes running, to show who is the boss. Is the OS usable for benchmarking ? Nope, not at all! ******* It's the same with Linux. For the most part, the core is stable. A notable exception, is when new subsystems come online. When webcam drivers were placed in the kernel (instead of user space) for the first time, I managed to trigger a kernel panic, by using my webcam the second time. The first time, the webcam worked. I tried to open the webcam a second time and triggered a kernel panic. That was fixed in subsequent kernel releases. Back to stable again. But the kernel doesn't receive massive insults like that every day, so for the most part, the kernel is reliable. Usability of individual DEs is all over the place. Just like the DE on Windows. Paul |
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