Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(www.xda-developers.com)

12 pointsby haunter4 hours ago2 comments

JoeAltmaier38 minutes ago
Used to be a staff member working on an x86 OS called CTOS. I realized if I implemented a couple of traps, we could run command-line DOS programs. So I did. And it worked. Dev tools, text processing, piped commands all worked.
It helped that the DOS executable format was the same as the CTOS format - because we had traded Bill Gates our linker (which produces executables) for his BASIC compiler.
ThrowawayR24 hours ago
“He who fights with Windows should see to it that he himself does not become Windows. And when you gaze long into ntoskrnl, ntoskrnl also gazes into you.”
Seriously, is it really a victory if you have to adopt the architecture of your sworn enemy?
- breve3 hours ago
  Microsoft and Windows were never the enemy.
  To quote Linus Torvalds from 1997: "I don't try to be a threat to Microsoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows - the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different."
  - ThrowawayR22 hours ago
    He got less humble later on when momentum started building behind Linux. To quote Linus Torvalds from 2003: “Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”
- tardedmeme3 hours ago
  What is the purpose of achieving victory? Is it to produce the software that works better or is it to stick your fingers in your ears and lalala the loudest?
  Windows copied futexes from Linux first, anyway.
- tester7564 hours ago
  What you care more about?
  technical details or real-world outcomes?
- pixl973 hours ago
  I mean the NT kernel was never really the enemy, it was the company behind it.