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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 BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 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.