Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?

On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:57:24 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-05-23 11:03 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Thu, 23 May 2024 20:06:47 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

By using Linux, they're handing over control. They won't do that.

 
They’re losing control over the sheer complexity of Windows as it
stands.

 
This was the same problem they had in the mid-2000s when they rewrote
the core and implemented it into Vista. Looking back, they actually did
a good job. People forget that the beloved Windows 7 was just an
optimized Vista.

Windows 7 was a cleaned-up Vista. (Also see: “Windows Mojave”.)

Remember why Vista was late: the big reason was because somebody had the
bright idea to reimplement core parts of Windows in Dotnet. This turned to
be terrible in terms of resource usage (RAM, CPU etc). So they had to rip
all that code out and start again.

Even with that, they still couldn’t do things efficiently in Windows that
Linux can do, and that still applies today.

Look at the ongoing quality problems with Windows releases. Delegating
functions to Linux would actually be a way of regaining that control.

 
When referring to quality, what exactly are you pointing at? The
security problems? Updates breaking the desktop?

Buggy updates, and buggy patches to fix those updates, requiring more
patches to fix the previous patches.

The desktop experience itself is rather stellar.

With new “UI paradigms” introduced in one part but not used in another
part? With the inability to properly support multiple desktops, which *nix
systems have been doing for years, nay, decades? With a UI that is not
adaptable enough to compete with the Linux-based Steam Deck for handheld
gaming? With the advertisements gradually seeping into every part of the
desktop?