Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by tsimionescu on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:36PM
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I think a much more common problem than OOM is X itself. It ties programs tightly together, making it trivial for one badly behaving process to take down all processes with a GUI.
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Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by michaelmrose on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:54PM
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It seems intuitively true that you would always have SOMETHING acting as a go between video driver and all clients and if this crashed your graphical interface goes down unless you have something that acts as an interface that can in turn restart the component. A buggy client already shouldn't actually take down your X server but a bug in X obviously can.
It sounds odd to me to describe applications relying on a toolkit like QT/GTK which can run in dozens of different environments which in turn run on both X11 and Wayland which in turn can talk to a variety of different GPU drivers as tightly coupled.