alt Hacker NewsI was at Microsoft during the Windows 8 cycle. I remember hearing about a kernel feature I found interesting. Then I found linux had it for a few years at the time.
I think the reality is that Linux is ahead on a lot of kernel stuff. More experimentation is happening.
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I was surprised to hear that Windows just added native NVMe which Linux has had for many years. I wonder if Azure has been paying the SCSI emulation tax this whole time.
And behind in anything related to kernel security, sandboxing, user space drivers, and 3D graphics drivers.
Without Proton there would be no "Linux" games.
It would be great if Valve actually continued Loki Entertainment's work.
when the hood is open for anyone to tinker, lots of little weirdos get to indulge their ideas. Sometimes those are ideas are even good!
And behind on a lot of stuff. The Microsoft's ACLs are nothing short of one of the best designed permission systems there are.
On the surface, they are as simple as Linux UOG/rwx stuff if you want it to be, but you can really, REALLY dive into the technology and apply super specific permissions.
Yeah and Linux is waaay behind in other areas. Windows had a secure attention sequence (ctrl-alt-del to login) for several decades now. Linux still doesn't.
yeah, but you have IO Completion Ports…
IO_Uring is still a pale imitation :(
Linux is behind Windows wrt (Hybrid) Microkernel vs Monolith, which helps with having drivers and subsystems in user mode and support multiple personalities (Win32, POSIX, OS/2 and WSL subsystems). Linux can hot‑patch the kernel, but replacing core components is risky and drivers and filesystems cannot be restarted independently.