• Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    This is also a reminder that Windows and the NT kernel have been so neglected and underdeveloped that it’s a technical house of cards.

    Blame Microsoft for firing their NT kernel team and QA teams in the Windows 9 era to instead automate testing and development.

    In fact, if Europe could just generalise and open source the NT kernel, Windows could actually be usable again.

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      if Europe could just generalise and open source the NT kernel, Windows could actually be usable again.

      I guess it would be useful just for running software that only works on Windows but I can’t think of any other actual benefits to NT when compared to any Unix/Unix-like kernel

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      1 month ago

      How’d you suppose Europe would open-source one very very commercial software? It’s practically like asking McDonalds to pay you for eating their burgers.

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      If I were to take the first part seriously, the kernel is actually the thing that’s holding up the best out of everything nowadays