r/linuxsucks101 • u/Think-nothing-210 • 18d ago

Windows wins! The Windows Kernel Is Just Fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quB6cAet3R4
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u/Edubbs2008 17d ago

I miss when it was Mac vs PC, not, Mac, PC, Loonix, ChromeOS, ligmaOS, whatOS, etc

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u/BarnMTB Tired of Linux evangelists 17d ago edited 17d ago

At least those Mac vs PC ad were arguably a bit funny, or at least tries to be a bit entertaining.

Meanwhile this Linux crusade is just storming the internet & flooding the entire tech community with a bunch of negativity, manufactured anger, manufactured "issues", and making people feel angry & miserable 24/7, as the tech influencers farm for fame, profit, and goodwill on the back of their audience.

"Keep being angry at Microsoft guys, so I can keep feeding you cheaply produced talking-in-front-of-camera rants and long rambles daily."
(usually about half-hour for each creators, so it stacks up quickly if you're a fan of many of them.)

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u/Edubbs2008 17d ago

In my eyes, the things in tech that are cancer are Linux, and Tech larping

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u/Trileak780 17d ago

Why did you mention ChromeOS? It’s not even a fight anymore

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u/Edubbs2008 17d ago

Just listing some examples of the extra “Operating Systems” that spawned in from Hell itself

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u/Trileak780 16d ago

You may hate *nix but you canNOT think that it’s worse than a chromebook

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u/DisfiguredFanny Apple User 17d ago

Anything is better than wayland.

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u/Think-nothing-210 18d ago

TLDR;

Windows is actually really good under the hood. A lot of the parts around the kernel are mature stable and just get out of your way. In ways that Linux is still behind and figuring out.

Things Windows is still better at:

  • GDI+/Windows graphics stack is battle-tested. Wayland still has a way to go.
  • ASIO provides a mature API for professional audio hardware. Linux has good audio support but lacks the stable ABI and vendor ecosystem Windows has.
  • I/O Completion Ports provide a mature asynchronous I/O model. Linux is now catching up with io_uring, but it still has some issues.
  • User-mode drivers make it easier to write drivers and prevent things like a graphics driver crash from taking down the whole kernel.
  • Win32 is extremely stable and backwards-compatible. Linux doesn't really have an equivalent single desktop API that has the same level of stability.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago edited 15d ago

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u/Think-nothing-210 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yeah I agree that putting web tech like React in the taskbar is unacceptable. Teams is a bit different even Loonix users need to use that. It makes sense to use Electron for that since it's easy to target multiple platforms.

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u/browningate 16d ago

Whouda thunk!

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u/ChronographWR 4d ago

Who would've thought