Am 20.03.2016 um 21:25 schrieb Anton Aylward:
I'd prefer is the process with the focus wouldn't get disturbed by other processes. That feels like a good heuristic. In absolute terms what you're asking for is OS8, CP/M, or early MS-DOS,
On 03/20/2016 03:39 PM, Aaron Digulla wrote: that is a single talks "operating system'.
No, what I'm asking for is an OS which doesn't feel laggy. I have a supercomputer under my desk and neither Windows nor Linux are able to make it feel "snappy". That's sad. Some heavy parallel process runs away with your CPU? Well, we're too lazy/dump/careless to configure ssh or other measure in such a way that you can stop it. Just switch off the computer... and hope for the best. It's 2016, guys. Computers should start to heal themselves by now. Anything hogs the CPU? Maybe reserve 10% for other processes just in case the user might want to do something else. Browser plugin makes the browser unusable? How about a useful error message. X11 hangs in a deadlock? How about some real-time deadlock detection. Or dead-lock free code. But no. It's much easier to build a system which doesn't save log messages somewhere in RAM when hibernate fails so an automated tool could collect them. Instead, even professionals have to stab in the dark to figure out what might be going on. I understand that people like me are part of the problem. Instead of inventing programming languages that make it hard to write bad code by forcing the feeble human brain to juggle tons of information, we're lazy. It's easier to have thousands of developers spend days of their lives to debug a broken language design than to spend a week and do it right. But again. It's 2016. It's time to think about way to make life more simple automatically. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org