alternative to Ubuntu - from programming view
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I have been experiencing "application X not responding " Linux Ubuntu since unknown "version upgrade ". Posted inquiry about it on several forums and so far no response. My guess is it has to do with Ubuntu "multitasking"... but guessing does not solve the issue.. Reason for this post my hobby program - tracking radio response (pings) from meteor - runs "system call" which takes roughly 12 seconds to complete - on the good day. When Ubuntu decides to " application (my program ) not responding" it takes about 5 to 7 seconds to post the message and then my system call completion is unpredictable...most of the time Ubuntu does not recover.. HENCE I am asking this forum to recommend alternative to Ubuntu which is "user friendly " to QT. I did ask Mrs Google and read few "reviews" , they are void of comments as far as programming application , likes QT , so that is why I am posting this here. I do not care if Linux flavor X is "Windows like" or faster then a speeding bullet... I need to get rid of "application not responding ". Period. Thanks for reading and have a happy festivus...
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I have been experiencing "application X not responding " Linux Ubuntu since unknown "version upgrade ". Posted inquiry about it on several forums and so far no response. My guess is it has to do with Ubuntu "multitasking"... but guessing does not solve the issue.. Reason for this post my hobby program - tracking radio response (pings) from meteor - runs "system call" which takes roughly 12 seconds to complete - on the good day. When Ubuntu decides to " application (my program ) not responding" it takes about 5 to 7 seconds to post the message and then my system call completion is unpredictable...most of the time Ubuntu does not recover.. HENCE I am asking this forum to recommend alternative to Ubuntu which is "user friendly " to QT. I did ask Mrs Google and read few "reviews" , they are void of comments as far as programming application , likes QT , so that is why I am posting this here. I do not care if Linux flavor X is "Windows like" or faster then a speeding bullet... I need to get rid of "application not responding ". Period. Thanks for reading and have a happy festivus...
What hardware platform is your app running on? Are you sure it's Ubuntu and not the hardware you're running on? Does it have enough memory?, etc..
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What hardware platform is your app running on? Are you sure it's Ubuntu and not the hardware you're running on? Does it have enough memory?, etc..
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I do not know how to describe "hardware platform". I have been running Ubuntu WITHOUT this problem for over 10 years. As I said it started recently, after about three or four version upgrade. It affect ANY application , not just my C++ code. I have 8GB RAM and NEVER seen it over 50% usage. I appreciate your comments, however, I have had it and if it is a system hardware issue it will show up in another OS. Then it will be end of guessing.
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I have been experiencing "application X not responding " Linux Ubuntu since unknown "version upgrade ". Posted inquiry about it on several forums and so far no response. My guess is it has to do with Ubuntu "multitasking"... but guessing does not solve the issue.. Reason for this post my hobby program - tracking radio response (pings) from meteor - runs "system call" which takes roughly 12 seconds to complete - on the good day. When Ubuntu decides to " application (my program ) not responding" it takes about 5 to 7 seconds to post the message and then my system call completion is unpredictable...most of the time Ubuntu does not recover.. HENCE I am asking this forum to recommend alternative to Ubuntu which is "user friendly " to QT. I did ask Mrs Google and read few "reviews" , they are void of comments as far as programming application , likes QT , so that is why I am posting this here. I do not care if Linux flavor X is "Windows like" or faster then a speeding bullet... I need to get rid of "application not responding ". Period. Thanks for reading and have a happy festivus...
I found - years ago - Fedora to be the best for me... I occasionally using Qt, and it works for me, however the IDE comes with it is far from being good... but it may be a global issues and not specific to me...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I have been experiencing "application X not responding " Linux Ubuntu since unknown "version upgrade ". Posted inquiry about it on several forums and so far no response. My guess is it has to do with Ubuntu "multitasking"... but guessing does not solve the issue.. Reason for this post my hobby program - tracking radio response (pings) from meteor - runs "system call" which takes roughly 12 seconds to complete - on the good day. When Ubuntu decides to " application (my program ) not responding" it takes about 5 to 7 seconds to post the message and then my system call completion is unpredictable...most of the time Ubuntu does not recover.. HENCE I am asking this forum to recommend alternative to Ubuntu which is "user friendly " to QT. I did ask Mrs Google and read few "reviews" , they are void of comments as far as programming application , likes QT , so that is why I am posting this here. I do not care if Linux flavor X is "Windows like" or faster then a speeding bullet... I need to get rid of "application not responding ". Period. Thanks for reading and have a happy festivus...
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I do not know how to describe "hardware platform". I have been running Ubuntu WITHOUT this problem for over 10 years. As I said it started recently, after about three or four version upgrade. It affect ANY application , not just my C++ code. I have 8GB RAM and NEVER seen it over 50% usage. I appreciate your comments, however, I have had it and if it is a system hardware issue it will show up in another OS. Then it will be end of guessing.
Whenever an app gets into a "not responding" state, it usually can be attributed to its UI thread being blocked by a long-running task, and the solution typically is to move that long-running task to a background thread. But since it's been working fine "for over 10 years", and is happening with multiple, unrelated (?) apps, it's hard to blame that. I'd say you're probably correct in that there's something else in one of the prior upgrades that has introduced a problem that wasn't there before. You could start rolling back to previous versions, but (a) I don't know how much of a hassle this is going to be for you and (b) it's still going to be a needle in a haystack. But, if you go back far enough to demonstrate, say, that a version that used to work no longer does...then it could be failing hardware, such as a disk taking its sweet time to respond and affecting every application. But if you could pinpoint a specific version where the problem reappears (when moving from version X to version X+1), then at least you could start looking at a change log. I can't think of much else to add at this point other than good luck. I can only imagine just how frustrating this sort of thing can be.
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I do not know how to describe "hardware platform". I have been running Ubuntu WITHOUT this problem for over 10 years. As I said it started recently, after about three or four version upgrade. It affect ANY application , not just my C++ code. I have 8GB RAM and NEVER seen it over 50% usage. I appreciate your comments, however, I have had it and if it is a system hardware issue it will show up in another OS. Then it will be end of guessing.
Salvatore Terress wrote:
I do not know how to describe "hardware platform".
He means, "what are you running it on? A PC, Raspberry Pi, etc.". If, by any chance, it's a Raspberry PI, check dmesg to make sure that you have neither low voltage nor high temperature conditions. Also check your SDR USB dongle for overheating.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
