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nicc on April 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for it...

I would switch to Windows in a heartbeat if they dropped NT and switched to becoming a Linux distro with a Windows emululator for legacy apps.

NiveaGeForce on April 17, 2018 [–]

That would be a downgrade.

nicc on April 19, 2018 | [–]

Really?

Even just the file locking would make it an upgrade, since it would allow you to avoid restaring your PC after upgrades like 30 years ago.

What makes Windows internals superior to Unix-based systems?

NiveaGeForce on May 1, 2018 | | | [–]

See http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.th...

ddingus on April 19, 2018 | | | [–]

Agreed.

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