Tim: > > -- Can I still run my Windows software on it? > > -- You do realise it was mostly*that* software that did the crashing?
ToddAndMargo: > "That" software is no more buggy with their Linux > offerings than it is on Windows offering. > > The problem is the unstable platform (Win) that > those programs are running on. Well, there is that. But my take has always been that it's usually the software you're using that crashes (browser, word processor, spreadsheet, etc), and the OS may or may not fail to handle it. What you were actually trying to do (use an app) has gone tits up, and destroyed hours of work (hence why I save things very often while working on them). And using that same software on something else doesn't really help you avoid that issue. From my point of view, the OS should *never* fail. Everything depends on it. It should do proper error handling. And OS creators should spend much more effort on getting it right. They should, also, spend far less time re-inventing the wheel, keeping the OS much more stable, small, and easier to maintain, adding *NEW* things as external functions that are not directly part of the OS. And buffer overflow, anyone? The bane of virtually every Windows- related screw-up and exploit. It's long past time that programmers learnt how to handle input and output properly, and compilers should probably be removing functions that are particularly vulnerable to it. There's no way that receiving more input than expected ought to do anything more than get truncated and completely disappear, then the function return an error. It's inexcusable that the overflow can actually do something. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
