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by p_ing 7mo ago
OS/2 part deux
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by p_ing 7mo ago
It looks like you have this discussion confused. This is about Macs, not phones.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
No where did I say you can’t get a hold of one, I said they don’t have the volume. They’re behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell. The x86 market is massive and dwarfs Apple’s Mac manufacturing.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
This ignores that Apple is unable to manufacture enough computers per year to be disruptive. 25m Macs in calendar year 2025. Lenovo manufactured 19m PCs in Q4 2025. Apple simply lacks volume.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
4K random read with a queue depth of 1 on an M1 Max is about 65MB/s.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Apple isn't capable of manufacturing the amount of volume necessary to displace x86/Windows. Apple shipped 25.6 million Macs in 2025. Lenovo shipped 19.3 million PCs in the 4th quarter alone .
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by p_ing 7mo ago
You don't want that dream. It's a whole new set of unknown bugs, security issues, lack of essential features, and app compat issues. And the internals of NT are quite good and still largely modern. There's not a lot worth rep
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by p_ing 7mo ago
On the desktop, I don't believe Microsoft has had significant competition for quite some time, likely back to Windows 95. In the server space, NT fought really hard against the UNIX giants of the time.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
> giant XML blobs instead of using proper, efficient table schemas. Prior to SharePoint 2013, Microsoft used sparse columns. It made for massive tables and was poor design. Moving to XML blobs for user-defined schemas was the correct cho
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by p_ing 7mo ago
.NET Framework needs its own runtime. Java needs its own runtime. What's the issue?
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by p_ing 7mo ago
And if it was the best choice, the critique isn't valid. If you know why it was chosen and if it was a bad choice compared to other frameworks, please do tell.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
I'm not sure that it uses React Native, but modern add-ins for Office are JS, so any injected modern add-in will be using JS rather than COM/C/C++. This gave add-ins portability between all supported Office platforms, increas
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by p_ing 7mo ago
You have inside knowledge of why React Native was chosen?
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by p_ing 7mo ago
So you're asking for a bug-filled, unstable, feature-less OS? Because that's what you get when you start from scratch.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
If you deem a couple of clicks "tons of effort", don't touch macOS!
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Shouldn't devs be allowed to select what they feel is the "best" choice for a given component? While I wouldn't expect to see a SwiftUI in Windows from Microsoft, Microsoft hasn't been adverse to various NIH web fra
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Exactly this. And it is on a portion of the Start menu that can be fully disabled. Heck, my start menu looks like the Windows 10 start menu (yes, this is OOTB) as I wasn't fond of the "new" look of the Windows 11 start menu.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
As we've seen, across years no UI theme is permanent. It might stick around for a long time, but it won't stay forever.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
I realized it was the gear icon that is rendering dark/black on a dark/black background of the app.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
It's really difficult to see the right click menu.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
There are no practical issues with a "cluttered" registry. It's a database. Databases deal just fine with extra rows in tables.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
$1K for a toilet! https://www.totousa.com/ultramax-ii-one-piece-toilet-elongat...
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by p_ing 7mo ago
This isn't an NTFS thing. The I/O Manager implements NtLockFile. Applications can request exclusive byte-range write access to a file. And perhaps it is lazy programmers, or defaults, but they generally do. I don't think Micr
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by p_ing 7mo ago
> still be more robust Why? The only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Displaying seconds on macOS also causes higher CPU usage for WindowServer.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Windows ships with a universal IPP driver that works for any printer which is Mopria certified; similar to AirPrint. There's very little reason to install print drivers anymore on Windows.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Why bother making native releases when Valve/Proton will take care of it? Who wants the headache of supporting another build and directly supporting N flavors of Linux distributions? When it comes to games, Linux has an OS/2 probl
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by p_ing 7mo ago
XWindows/Wayland being a userland application with no solid hooks into kernel space (that has both advantages and disadvantages), where as Windows operates the Window Manager/GDI within the Executive [for performance]. It makes it
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by p_ing 7mo ago
If you were old, you’d know KDE copied the UX from Windows.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
> The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Interesting, given this game was shortly abandoned after release with major performance issues.

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