[vox] One more reason to prefer Linux...

[Micah Cowan]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

>For some reason, my computer's GUI crashed at work.  Because it's a
>Windows computer, I couldn't do a danged thing unless I rebooted. 
>Pressing ctrl+alt+delete brought up the task manager at least, so I could
>do a more or less clean reboot, but still.  It was annoying.
>
>At home I run FC3 with KDE as my window manager.  If KDE crashes, I know I
>can restart X by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace, without having to reboot the
>entire computer.  Or I can launch a shell and examine the system logs to
>see what happened, and possibly fix whatever configuration setting got
>messed up.  With Windows, I could boot into safe mode, but that's no
>guarantee that I'll figure out what happened.  But I still have to reboot
>the entire machine and that's a lot more time consuming than just
>rebooting X.
>  
>
The exception to this could be if a faulty video driver hung. But of 
course, if this happened to Windows, you wouldn't be able to get a task 
manager, either. :-)

-Micah