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[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

At last, the Year of the Linux Desktop.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

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"

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] ardent_abysm@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is a real, and useful feature, while also being a joke.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When is it useful to replace a useful trace and log with an arbitrary error message?

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I never had text disappearing when the system crashed, though.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

When the system crashes?

So very rarely I guess.

[–] virr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Cralder@feddit.nu 6 points 2 years ago

It's real. A bluescreen is literally just an error message displayed in fullscreen so it's not as weird as it sounds

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 years ago

What?? No no.. Please no.