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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by ashirviskas on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:38PM (#44035170)
Can you expand on this? I've used Windows 10 for 2-3 years when it came out and I remember BSODs being hell.

Now I only experienced something close to that when I set up multiseat on single PC with AMD and Nvidia GPUs and one of them decided to fall asleep. Or when I undervolt GPU too much.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by okanat on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:53PM (#44035305)
Of course that depends on the component and the access level. RAM chip broken? Tough luck. A deep kernel driver accessing random memory like CrowdStrike; you'll still crash. One needs an almost microkernel-like separation for preventing such issues.

However, there are certain APIs like WDDM timeout detection and recovery: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d... . It is like a watchdog that'll restart the driver without BSOD'ing. You'll get a crash dump out of it too.

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