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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Dec 3, 2011 18:31 UTC (Sat) by elanthis (guest, #6227)In reply to: Quotes of the week by nix Parent article: Quotes of the week
Who said anything about buying new gadgets?
Those of us with friends and colleagues often have requests to plug in random bits of equipment for some quick something-er-other. Having to wait for a recompile and a reboot certainly would make people "nostalgic" for Windows (which does not require that kind of crap, hasn't for many many years, and only the odd driver with an idiotic installer script even asks the user to consider rebooting these days).
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Quotes of the week Posted Dec 8, 2011 16:48 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>Windows (which does not require that kind of crap, hasn't for many many years, and only the odd driver with an idiotic installer script even asks the user to consider rebooting these days)
In fact, Windows does rather better than Linux does in this regard in that it's possible to replace the graphics driver for a running system with little more than a quick flicker.
In Linux you *still* need to restart X, which in practical terms is not much different for the desktop user than rebooting.
(I'm hoping dynamic reconfiguration is something that Wayland will improve upon, if it really gets off the ground)
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