Comment by ok123456
5 years ago
Wine's crash handler provides a lot more details and diagnostic information if you know what you're looking at. "Oh RAX was 0 and de-referenced. That looks like a trivial memory error in SomeComponent.dll+0x302223."
Other platforms are infantilized: "Oopsey doodle that crashed :(. Look for problem online? Oh no solution found. Sorry about that. Got it?"
That's not platform specific at all. If your program spits out proper crash logs (which most games do), it's a matter of locating and examining the log file.
The "if you know what you're looking at"-part is pretty much nonsense as you're basically saying "if you are an experienced programmer with intimate knowledge of both the system and the hardware architecture".
This is not something a regular user should be expected to know. A good program should simply provide a proper feedback-channel and collect and send the appropriate information if the user choses to do so.
>The "if you know what you're looking at"-part is pretty much nonsense as you're basically saying "if you are an experienced programmer with intimate knowledge of both the system and the hardware architecture".
Same thing.
> This is not something a regular user should be expected to know. A good program should simply provide a proper feedback-channel and collect and send the appropriate information if the user choses to do so.
Then why do all these bugs fall through the cracks on other platforms?
> Then why do all these bugs fall through the cracks on other platforms?
Two main reasons:
1) Other platforms are primarily used by non-technical individuals who simply don't care about the OS and who more often than not are unable to tell the difference between bad software ergonomics, user error, and software bugs in the first place.
2) The Linux platform is built around the concept of OSS, where user participation and direct feedback are an essential part of the ecosystem. Most OSS has bug tracking and Wikis that describe how to report a bug and quick release cycles (e.g. fast feedback from the user's perspective). Linux users make a conscious decision to use Linux and some level of involvement in the OSS community is often part of that decision.
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