UrBan wrote:DX doesnt support Ray Tracing, OpenGL does. Linux supports OpenGL. Ray Tracing is the future of graphical representation apparently. Hmmmza
Windows supports OpenGL as well as DX10, so why is Linux superior for supporting a single API instead of 2? Raytracing may be the future of graphics, but it's really distant future. DX12 or DX13 will be out by then and we'll all be 10-15 years older.
About your Linux crashing, I managed to crash Fedora and Red Hat countless times while I was working on it. The Linux fanboy at work said he never seen that so many times before,
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a likely excuse. My main development environment was an HP dual core Xeon server pre-configured with Red Hat, so I was not the culprit. The fanboy installed Fedora for me on another PC so again I can be scratched off the PEBKAC list.
I've had my main Windows machines kept permanently on for a record of something like 90+ days without crashing. The only reason it got reboot was the start of the load shedding. This PC ran SQL Server 2000, 2 MSDE instances, Server 2005 enterprise, SQL Server 2005 express, Oracle, Apache, IIS and VS studio concurrently at times and firefox with about 20 tabs open and Outlook was constantly on. It had a whole lot of things like ActiveSynch running, debugging PDA applications as well as countless SDKs/compilers/drivers for ICEs/ICDs for embedded CPUS and PDAs. It has .NET 2.0 installed for about 3 years and .NET 1.1 for 4 years.
I crashed it about 6 or 7 times in it's life cycle, 2004-2008. And trust me, I abused it. Did things like not restarting when prompted and running the application directly after the install. It was overclocked from 2.66 to 2.9Ghz without a PCI/AGP lock. It had a dodgy serial port extender with 8 extra RS232 ports that often got static electricity sent down the connectors.
Eventually it got too slow and I upgraded to a 2.67 Core2 with Vista Business. I haven't managed to crash Vista but the first thing I did was remove all the HP security tools that cluttered the PC and it's performance is now somewhat descent.
Now imagine government decides to scratch Windows and moves over to Linux. We'd turn into Zimbabwe within 3 months.