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by fhackenberger 1264 days ago
Bit off-topic: My major pain point a while ago was that Gnome-shell crashes take down all running applications. Is that still the case?
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sprash 1264 days ago
Yes. Similarly a crash of Xorg will bring down all running applications. However thanks to standardized interfaces in X11 both the window manager and the compositor can independently crash or even replaced at runtime by a different program without affecting running programs. This just shows how much further ahead X11 is on a conceptual level and how bad the Wayland design philosophy really is.
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turkeybased 1264 days ago
> This just shows how much further ahead X11 is on a conceptual level and how bad the Wayland design philosophy really is.

I agree that the isolated failure mechanism in this case is a strength of X11, but it's too far to extrapolate that to the designs as a whole.

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amiga-workbench 1263 days ago
Yup, under an X11 session when Gnome goes completely mad you can hit ALT+F2, R, Enter and restart it without losing all of your state.
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