• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Keep dreaming, people will keep on using Windows because they don’t care about the bloat, they just want something that works and that doesn’t require fucking around for hours every time they plug something new in!

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      35 minutes ago

      I use Linux myself, but my work laptop they gave me is windows. I can honestly say that I believe in near future the average Linux experience is going to be smoother than windows. Because I cannot believe how insanely annoying windows 11 is. It’s really not good. And modern Linux has more than good enough software and hardware compatibility.

      But of course it’s gonna take a long while before Linux overtakes windows because social inertia. And that’s not gonna change easily because there is no humongous international corporation that spends billions every year to get their Linux based OS pre-installed on almost every new computer.

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      16 hours ago

      i doubt the average user even understands what an operating system means and they’ll just go with thatever it came with

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        14 hours ago

        Can confirm, I am a windows user and if my laptop came with Linux preinstalled, the way it had windows preinstalled, I’d be a Linux user.

        If I ever have to Google what the hell a kernel is then I have read everything else available on the internet.

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        13 hours ago

        To be fair, I’m using Linux, MacOS with Darwin Nix for managing it, Windows, and I still am not sure what exactly is an operating system, what’s the role of kernel and all of the possible system software is. Well, I think kernel is for hardware abstraction, but other than that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Lightfire228@pawb.social
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          13 hours ago

          The kernel does stuff like

          • process and CPU task management
          • hardware abstraction
          • memory management (at the process level),
          • file system managment
          • and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

          The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

          • file managers
          • desktop rendering and window management
          • settings menus
          • sound mixing between applications
          • graphics rendering