BTW.. totally OT Shadow... but I have a question.. (Running Linux Mint; Mate)..
I was happy the other day when I was able to install Photoshop, using Wine (and no assistance from PoL or anything else), and it worked perfectly...
I was worried about shutting PhotoShop down because I thought it may not run again.. I was right. Tried several times, and it kept giving me a ‘hardware Failure’ error...
Tried to reboot.. couldn’t even get to post :/
Went to laptop (also Linux (Cinnamon, not important atm)..
When I had time, I broke my main PC down, and it came to my RAM. During the time I went from successful PhotoShop until reboot, I had 4 sticks of RAM (8 gig)... It blew 3 sticks >.<
Is this Linux’s fault (normal to happen), or is this something else that may have been waiting to happen? I know you can’t answer without being here, but.. have you heard of anything else like this happening either with Linux or PhotoShop?
(BTW, I am back on main PC with only 1 stick.. and it is much slower than I am used to :p).
After working several years in a high-volume data center, I can pretty much guarantee that it is not the fault of Linux :)
More likely, it is just older RAM that has been waiting for downtime to actually fail. I have seen my share of servers that run fine for years until someone powers them down and then hardware issues crop up.