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It doesn't. Replacing the kernel doesn't but deprecating the entire OS and switching to GNU/Linux + Wine (which means MS would start contributing to Wine) does.
by qwerty456127 8y ago
It doesn't. Replacing the kernel doesn't but deprecating the entire OS and switching to GNU/Linux + Wine (which means MS would start contributing to Wine) does. If this happens we can get heavily improved Wine + vendors like Adobe releasing Linux-native versions of their apps.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI still don't get it. There's nothing wrong with the kernel, the crap is stuff that they've put on top of the kernel just like it is in Linux. You're giving up the best part of the OS and replacing the worst part with a compatibility layer, why not keep the NT kernel and use a compatibility layer? Since MS has all the code and it wouldn't have to be open source, that'd be much easier.
- qwerty456127 8y ago> just like it is in Linux. Quite the opposite: the only thing that is (hell arguable, of course) wrong with Linux is its kernel architecture.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI could not possibly disagree more strongly. Linux's kernel has some problems but it is mostly ok. Userspace is where everything has gone horribly horribly wrong in Linux.
- qwerty456127 8y agoE.g. what? As for the kernel I personally dislike the the Linux kernel-driver separation model (I believe these should better be made more separate, like in Windows) but other people (kernel hackers probably) have mentioned the VMS genes in the NT kernel make it in interesting in more ways. But what's wrong with the GNU/Linux userspace? I can't name a single problem with it.