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I always thought it would have been cool if some rogue and disgruntled programmer with the skills to do so, built DirectX and other Windows proprietary stuff natively into a Linux distro illegally.
Man, what if they just made every windows app run natively on Linux like this…
I wonder how they like being on the other side of Embarce, Extend, Extinguish
Too busy crowbarring AI into the clock
how shit of a software company do you have to be where your own os's software running through a translation layer on another operating system is threatening to run faster than natively on your os. somethings gotta snap.
To be honest, Microsoft's software is running against an API that uses a translation layer to talk to an older API. Multiple layers of this happen before you get to hardware, mostly for compatibility with legacy software that uses the older APIs.
Not to mention MS have rewritten their frontends for their apps several times and keep them each time.
It's less of a translation layer and more of a reimplementation. But yes, it does demonstrate how shitty Microsoft is that other people can implement its APIs better than it can.
a reimplementation built from reverse engineering and documentation that lies, meanwhile microsoft are the ones who should know how it all works, but apparently not.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines not even standard reverse engineering either. It's incredibly impressive
The original code was probably sent through AI optimisation and the comments were lost
The news here is that NTSYNC is more efficient than the Linux emulations that came before it, not that it's faster than the original Windows implementation.
with less LOC btw
it's not just the software that runs better, in many cases it's the hardware too.
Take laptop batteries for example. users will state over and over how their batteries last a lot longer when their system is running linux as opposed to windows.
It used to be the opposite a lot of the time. Power management used to be a huge problem. Lately though things got a lot better.
NEEDS MORE COPILOT
...Copilot/Windows or as I like to call it, Copilot+Windows...
Threatening to? When was the last time you used Windows? Maybe you've forgotten just how much of a slug it is for gaming. Hell, just opening Steam can be a five minute ordeal depending on what Microsoft wants you to do first.
If you count all the aggressive pop ups and prompts and notifications and other bullshit that you can't turn off any time you try to just use your own fucking computer... 10 minutes from power button to game launch. Linux? Less than 2.
Sounds like you're not running 32 ssd's in raid 0 😏
IN THIS ECONOMY?
yeah switching to Linux is likely a lot less work if you factor in the price of the hardware you need to run games windows 11 smoothly at your current pay per hour(or salary/hours worked)...
Unless you "need" to play a game that uses "kernel level anti cheat"... then you're SoL... 😞
My brother ordered an ssd and amazon sent him like 12.
I so wanted him to make a huge raid 0.
....god... god fucking damnit.
Excuse me? Windows sucks on every front, not only for gaming. Get your facts right! /s
Windows is pretty bad. Microsoft should be split up. If I had the magic powers, its leadership would be stripped of wealth, barred from holding similar positions for life, and have their faces on some sort of wall of shame. Everyone is allowed to throw trash at them, and they have to pick it up.
Screw Windows! I'm going to make my own Windows, with blackjack, and hookers!
In fact forget the windows!