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I believe he’s referring to GPU preemption. I don’t think it’s even possible to disable cpu preemption on windows. On nix you can.

• hollerith 3y ago
  For decades no one used "nix" to mean Unix and Unix-like OSes (they used "*nix" and occasionally "Lunix") then a package manager named Nix became important and now people confusingly start using "nix" to mean Unix and Unix-like.
  • vGPU 3y ago
    Interesting info. It seemed like a reasonable common one to me over the past decade on the web.
    • Modified3019 3y ago
      I can’t really blame you, it’s a perfectly reasonable concatenation imo. Pretty sure I’ve at least rarely seen it over the years as well. That said, he is correct that now “nix” is going to likely be popularly associated (especially with tech types that love excessive things) with the Nix language, package manager, and NixOS, which has really been gaining steam. Especially these past few years. It was what I first thought of as well, given I use them.
      • Modified3019 3y ago
        ...And of course after the edit window is over, it occurs to me I got my wires crossed. "Concatenation" is adding two strings/words. What I meant was "contraction".