Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Thu, 1 May 2025 14:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

That was my experience too.  When I first used it, programs would just
dissapear, and leave a "core" file.  Individual programs DID crash more
than in Windows, but they rarely took the system down with it.  There
were fewer crashes on Windows, but they were often more catastrophic,
taking everything down with it.  A Linux program crash, well, it just
vanished.  At least everything else was usually untouchged.  When I
found I could telnet into the system, on the occasions the screen did
freeze, I could either kill the process, kill X, or shut the system
down, at least avoiding an unclean unmount.

Depending on how the program was built you could load the core into gdb
and get useful information on why it crashed. windbg sometimes worked but
more often was a disappointment.

For a developer tools on Linux like valgrind or ElectricFence were
superior to anything on Windows like Purify or BoundsChecker. The Windows
tools not only were inferior but were expensive.