What a sensational, over blown article. ArsTechnica this is shitty journalism and you should know it.
The headline would be about as correct if it said “SystemD update will bring Amiga’s Guru Meditation screen to Linux.”
This update has nothing to do with Windows. Error displays with additional information about the crash is not exclusive to windows, nor new. In fact a Kernel Panic screen happened in Unix.
The majority of linux articles have me checking the comments first to see if someone talks about ridiculous click bait crap, honestly saved me a lot of time.
I was sick of Reddit’s clickbait titles. It’s sad to see they moved here as well.
To be fair, it’s the articles themselves
I suppose that’s the main problem, I didn’t check the article since the title reeks clickbaity enough. However I wouldn’t share an article if the the title obviously is a clickbait, I’m sure there are bunch of respectable sources about this development.
To be fair, it is called a BSOD, which is a term widely associated with Windows.
At last, the Year of the Linux Desktop.
As people have said in some of the many, many other threads on this subject, if they really wanted to copy someone else’s style of full-screen error message they’d have done much better to go with “Guru Meditation”
This is a joke, right?
It is a real, and useful feature, while also being a joke.
When is it useful to replace a useful trace and log with an arbitrary error message?
Who says that those traces and logs are no longer there?
A helpful screen with information instead of a frozen screen or a wall of text that disappears faster than you can blink sounds better to me.
Not to mention your average user is likely to read the error on screen whether they know a log exists at all. This info alone can help software support.
I never had text disappearing when the system crashed, though.
When the system crashes?
So very rarely I guess.
More of it will display the LOG_EMERG message instead of just stopping without displaying anything.
There are some headless servers I’d prefer to just reboot, but unless actual hardware is faulty I would not be too worried about it.
It’s real. A bluescreen is literally just an error message displayed in fullscreen so it’s not as weird as it sounds
What?? No no… Please no.
