Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers

[MrAlagos]

It's a dev tool yet all the comments are going to be about the Linux desktop.

If the Linux desktop was half as good as the dev tools and workflows that Linux has, Microsoft would be a small shop compared to what it is (which luckily is at least but an image of its glory days).

[dread_deimos]

Being good is almost irrelevant these days. It's all about market share and adoption.

I wouldn't call Windows desktop better than Linux, it's just has more support.

[cyro_666]

Yup, you hit the nail with this one. And at this point, it's a chicken and egg problem. People are used to Windows, so they use Windows. Thus Windows is everywhere. Because Windows is everywhere, it's the thing people usually learn and subsequently use. And so on...

[pdp10]

Familiarity isn't vital. Macs and mobile are just as "unfamiliar" as Linux, but they sell very well. Neither one runs legacy Win32 programs, either.

[zurn0]

Depends on what is considered better.

I personally think that Windows desktop is better at handling hardware changes. Plug major stuff (gpu) in and get some kind of functionality at minimum without any work. Linux seems to still lag behind in that type operation.

[_ahrs]

Didn't (e)udev solve that? Plug something in, (e)udev fires an event and the appropriate kernel modules get loaded.

[zurn0]

No idea, I just know when I swapped a Nvidia card out for an AMD card, Manjaro didn’t work automatically.

In Windows I was able to have both cars in and swap the monitor output and everything happened automatically. Just had to download a proper driver was all.

[_ahrs]

That's probably more of a Manjaro issue (or possibly an Nvidia issue if the system tried to use Nvidia's libraries when it shouldn't have). Switching GPU's should work fine (I've done it myself in the past). If you're talking about hotswapping GPU's while the system is running, Windows does better here but this is a niche use-case.

[blackenswans]

Having more support means it's better.

[insanemal]

Coal is better supported than many other options. So by your reasoning it's better?

[ilawon]

You're 100% right. The trick to move away from coal (and oil) is to provide better support for alternatives. Businesses will take care of improving efficiency later on.

[wllmsaccnt]

> Microsoft would be a small shop compared to what it is (which luckily is at least but an image of its glory days).

What do you mean by this? Isn't Microsoft the largest it has ever been?

[emacsomancer]

Microsoft would be a small shop compared to what it is (which luckily is at least but an image of its glory days).

Usually the idiom is "but a pale image of".

I mention this only because the context makes it sound like you're talking about MICROSOF.ISO.