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Same argument applies to Windows vs Linux. Same story. Synergy opens amazing smartphone hardware to Linux — DCI-P3 color space, high refresh rates, variable re

Same argument applies to Windows vs Linux. Same story. Synergy opens amazing smartphone hardware to Linux — DCI-P3 color space, high refresh rates, variable refresh rates. Sandboxing, user privacy features, we need this on desktop too.

jhasse 5y ago
No? You can't fork Windows.
- sergeykish 5y ago
  "Just use existing Windows kernel and drivers, there are a lot of Open Source applications" etc etc. There is nothing special about Linux distribution, same could be done on top of NT kernel. But it is not. React OS reimplements kernel and userspace, in theory userspace could be used on top of Windows. There are a lot of Windows users yet no such thing. Somehow Linux experience is much richer and safe. Xmonad and pacman.
  - jhasse 5y ago
    There is something special about Linux distributions: The Linux kernel. In lots of areas it is indeed better than NT and it's stuff that matters to userspace, too (file system performance is one example, process spawning performance another).
    - sergeykish 5y ago
      How would you explain BSD than? And I've heard Linux 5.1 (2019) io_uring is similar to Windows NT 3.5 (1994) IOCP.