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I can't really follow the article. Too much paranoia, or negativity, I guess. All I care about is having a usable Linux shell and Linux tool on my Windows mach
by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I can't really follow the article. Too much paranoia, or negativity, I guess.
All I care about is having a usable Linux shell and Linux tool on my Windows machine. What else can you expect from Microsoft? Yeah, they are doing it so that people don't switch over to Linux completely. What more can you expect?
Is it even Microsoft's job to establish a standard for 3d Graphics and what not? Or is the ball in the park of graphics card vendors and game developers?
Why do I have Windows on my machine? I don't fully trust Linux to achieve the same level of power management. I can play games. I have a dual graphics card, which would be a hassle to use on Linux.
It would be notebook vendor's job to release Linux notebooks with good power management. Chip vendors to release specs that enable Linux developers to create such drivers. And so on.
- gowld 7y agoWhy wouldn't an Operating System developer be responsible for providing an interface between hardware developers and applicaton developers?
- pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y agoOpenGL seems to have coexisted with DirectX for a while. I don't know enough about OS development to be able to judge if Microsoft prevented OpenGL from achieving the same performance as DirectX. Given the abysmal security history of Windows, my guess would be that it was possible to get close to the metal as a driver developer, at least in the old days. Also MS couldn't be expected to take care of an interface that works on iOS and Linux. They are responsible for Windows.