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Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

by dddavid on 12/7/23, 7:37 PM with 23 comments

  • by theandrewbailey on 12/7/23, 8:11 PM

    I've seen a few articles on this systemd BSOD feature, but none have had screenshots. Google doesn't come up with anything.

  • by scohesc on 12/7/23, 10:22 PM

    For someone who isn't experienced in how Linux crashes - what currently happens when there's an error that can't be recovered from? Does the device just restart?

  • by SushiHippie on 12/7/23, 9:50 PM

    Anyone know how I could try this out? (I have systemd 255)

  • by hulitu on 12/8/23, 7:50 AM

    > New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux

    Another feature worth porting is systemd spawning around 100 processes, just like svchost.exe. /s

  • by dddavid on 12/7/23, 7:37 PM

    Fantastic idea IMO

  • by herewulf on 12/8/23, 8:04 AM

    This is such a pointless feature. I have several daily driver Linux systems. They run for months at a time, sometimes years. The only time I see a kernel panic is if the hardware is bad or I did something wrong (misconfiguration).

    Years ago I had a dual boot system with bad RAM and on Windows it would regularly blue screen, on Linux it was fine. Took a long time to figure out what the actual problem was because Linux is just so rock solid.

    And no, I don't use any systemd based distros on my daily drivers.