maybe linux and its desktop environments need to be more closely designed around things going wrong with gpu drivers so it isn't super annoying when things go wrong with gpu drivers

i'll note that my framework (16) has experienced a gpu crash or two in its current service life and kde (6) has recovered pretty much seamlessly

however, there is a second failure mode that isn't a full gpu crash but instead the display refresh rate drops to like 2 fps. that is unrecoverable without logging out and back in :(

i mean at least you can log out at 2 fps. the respecting vt locks even when the program holding them is hung thing that is just linux's unquestioned default behavior is extremely unhinged

i'm also going to talk about windows for a second

the desktop i'm writing these posts on right now for the first few months of its service life when it was running bare metal windows 10 periodically bluescreened, and (nirsoft) bluescreenview reported the crash occurred in the gpu driver

easily recovering from bluescreens was part of the reason this computer now runs windows 10 in a VM, with GPU passthrough

@haskal wtf happened to gpus? i dont have gpu crashes ever..

@artemis glad it works on your machine