Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

JoeAltmaier 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Used to be a staff member working on an x86 OS called CTOS. I realized if I implemented a couple of traps, we could run command-line DOS programs. So I did. And it worked. Dev tools, text processing, piped commands all worked.

It helped that the DOS executable format was the same as the CTOS format - because we had traded Bill Gates our linker (which produces executables) for his BASIC compiler.

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ThrowawayR2 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“He who fights with Windows should see to it that he himself does not become Windows. And when you gaze long into ntoskrnl, ntoskrnl also gazes into you.”

Seriously, is it really a victory if you have to adopt the architecture of your sworn enemy?

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breve 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft and Windows were never the enemy.

To quote Linus Torvalds from 1997: "I don't try to be a threat to Microsoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows - the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different."

	▲	ThrowawayR2 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He got less humble later on when momentum started building behind Linux. To quote Linus Torvalds from 2003: “Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”

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tardedmeme 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What is the purpose of achieving victory? Is it to produce the software that works better or is it to stick your fingers in your ears and lalala the loudest?

Windows copied futexes from Linux first, anyway.

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pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really, in the drunken happiness to have games, Linux users keep forgetting those are games developed on game studios that the only place there are GNU/Linux installations running are their MMO servers.

It is no different from arguing how Linux is getting better GameCube games with Dolphin.

Also Valve is only as good as its current management is still around, eventually like any other company time will pass, and new warm bodies will take other decisions.

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tester756 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What you care more about?

technical details or real-world outcomes?

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pixl97 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean the NT kernel was never really the enemy, it was the company behind it.