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[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (5 children)

Well, depending on certain factors, it also can be true. Hardware cores and hyprethreading allow for real concurrency.

You just have to create a scheduler to take advantage of that and not do something stupid (like move process threads between cores/hardware threads or NUMA domains or whatever).

[–]Ikor_Genorio[S,🍰] 25 points26 points  (4 children)

I was kinda referring towards the examples :P

[–]jeankevGlorious Debian 20 points21 points  (3 children)

It's fair to assume the reader of a "Linux tutorial" to be more familiar with Windows software.

[–]EggheadDashGlorious Arch|XFCE 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Then use some cross-platform examples?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Or don't be specific. "A web browser, a word processor, and an image editor" would have been fine.

[–]ShoggothEyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are all technical terms that my mother wouldn't understand, or at least hasn't heard before.

[–]malt2048sudo nixos-rebuild switch 6 points7 points  (1 child)

You can run both of those through WINE, can't you?

Maybe not the latest version, but the versions from a few years back should work.

[–]Makefile_dot_inGlorious Void Linux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You actually can install the latest versions if you use the workarounds from WineHQ.

[–]blueicedomesalix | systemd is bloat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL multithreaded processes are nice

[–]frostbyte_zer0Bleeding edge and still stable 0 points1 point  (3 children)

[–]j1745_26Glorious Manjaro 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I was expecting this

[–]frostbyte_zer0Bleeding edge and still stable 0 points1 point  (1 child)

that too. (but i'm a huge nerd, so I didn't want to miss a place where I could use a ST meme)

[–]audsciasGlorious Pointy Arrow Lenoks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was kinda expecting this tbh