• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    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.