The article, in lieu of the video:
Thank you
Better kernel = better performance I guess?
There’s more to it than that, but that’s a pretty big factor.
The other two main things:
Windows is full of bloat/malware garbage that spies on you and does shit you don’t need, and it gets harder and harder every year to figure out how, or even if you can strip this garbage out…
And all of Windows is a jumbled mess of 30+ years of spaghetti code at this point.
New versions of windows are not like … ok, we’re gonna refactor everything, build it all again from the ground up in a more efficient way.
More like a snowball that rolls through snow and mud and sticks and dead leaves.
Miracle it hasn’t collapsed under its own weight at this point, what with so much work being done by temp contractors who have no singular consistent approach to anything, who tend to either not document things at all, or very poorly.
I am forced to work on Windows server and they keep adding an ugly veneer to the legacy UI, its amazing how ugly, cluttered, and lacking basic functionality it is. Something as basic as adding more than 2 DNS servers is impossible without the legacy UI.
Last time I used Windows was 10, and I was able to find 4, 4 different fucking historical UI schemes/frameworks by digging deep enough into arcane settings menus.
I was working at MSFT when 8 released.
Broke every server tool, SQL Manangement Studio, fucking everything, for weeks.
We asked them if there was a way to go back to the 7 UI.
Nope! It’s been removed!
… And a few days later, word of mouth and email chains start spreading an arcane series of override procedures to get back to the Win 7 GUI/Desktop, that is almost entirely still there… and after almost a month, our team finally gets the whole process forwarded to us or our team lead unofficially obtained it or something who fucking knows.
So much for ‘its been removed’.
After a month of so of that, MSFT realizes that a tablet only interface for desktop PCs is fucking stupid, they make the 7 UI/Desktop into an easier toggle, and kablamo, thats Windows 8.1!
We totally planned this the whole time everyone!
I hate MSFT more than most, because I used to work for them, they’re fucking awful.
If I could install it on my desktop I would.
https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS
You can turn basically any Linux distro into “Steam OS”. There’s nothing magical or different about Steam OS.
Im thinking of changing my daily driver for Win 10 to SteamOS. Any reason not to?
My understanding is that SteamOS, while having a desktop mode, is a stripped down OS lacking some basic functionality that you might expect from a desktop OS. Functionality that is also found in other distros with similar intentions like Bazzite.
Though this understanding was based more on a bit of older information, and I am not certain on the current state.
