I'm drunk let's talk about Windows
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In the popular imagination, Operating Systems are a layer below applications, and they all pretty much have the same challenges. Most would point to Windows, Linux, and MacOS as the main core solutions. Android divergent, still Linux. But among these, Windows is totally unique.
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Apple fully supports a tiny subset of their PC hardware. Linux is distributed as firmware packages, built and tested by developers. Windows is the only operating system in the world that ships updates directly to consumers without comprehensive hardware and software validation.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Imma let you finish but the Gallium3D Radeon driver for Linux was the greatest piece of hardware reverse engineering ever done
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the spicier take would be asking why, in YOOL 2020, Windows still requires me to install some sketchy driver for my motherboard to function properly, when Linux manages to make it all work without the vendor's support
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