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We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study (techxplore.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Takumidesh 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is so not true unless you are using some super stable old Debian release and aren't doing complex work.

Most DEs are super buggy, especially the darling child kde, which right off the bat makes things not super stable.

Additionally some of the most loved distros are rolling release and inherently unstable.

Hell, I use multiple distros daily, fedora and slackware, I also use windows for work, windows is by and large more stable in my experience.

Slackware has kernel panics monthly, kde crashes on fedora, Wayland has too many problems to count, meaning I have to switch to x sessions all the time.

Most GUI software I use has tons of visual glitches.

Yes it's tolerable, that's why I still use it, but I wouldn't exactly say it 'just works'

I would estimate I restart my fedora computer about 4-5 times more often than than the windows computer, and usually I have to restart fedora because of serious hard crashes (e.g. kde crashes so hard that I can't even switch to a tty, meaning I need to hard reset)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've not had anything like that since... forever. But then I'm not a kde nor fedora user. Naturally raises the question - have you considered switching from kde, fedora or both?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If Linux "just worked" I would have switched years ago. I've used several distributions, always preferred Gnome to KDE, and even with "expert" help setting things up, I always spent way more time trying to make things work than actually having things work. Unless it's a basic-ass workstation being used for minimal computer things or to run a server for something, there's always something that doesn't want to work.

I like the idea of Linux more than I actually like using Linux. :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Fair enough. What stuff do you run on your regular week?

[–] calcopiritus 4 points 4 months ago

I use KDE on my Linux machine, which means that I cannot develop anything involving the GPU.

The moment I experiment a little with the API or give it wrong parameters, not only my program crashes, but the whole system freezes and I have to manually press the "power off" button.

It does happen in windows too, however it's 100x less unlikely.

I also had a problem not long ago that crashing my program would not free the RAM, so every time I ran the program (and it crashed), I had 2-3GiB less of RAM. So I had to restart the computer every 10 runs or so.

Operating systems are supposed to isolate programs and manage their resources. A program crashing under no circumstances should affect any other program. I don't understand how it can happen.