vacuumflower comments on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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[+] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, and the same can be said about Windows NT, yet it's called one thing. Honestly I think I'm getting tired of American intelligence.

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Linux is only "one thing" if you're a kernel/driver developer. And even then, Linux via Android (linux fork) is completely different from the normal one.

As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.

Windows is one thing to support. Linux has countless configurations.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 1 year ago

As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.

I would expect Windows RT and Windows CE to somewhat differ too. Despite being NT.

Why would an application developer care about the init system? Start scripts and units for demonized stuff can be honestly made by users and maintainers, if that's expected to be packaged. If it's not, it's half an hour of googling to make functional enough ones for most purposes.

DBus is such a common thing that there are applications not working without it running, and nobody really complains. You can assume it is, or you can ignore its existence. That's changed by installing\uninstalling DBus. Not a difference between two operating systems, LOL.

glibc or musl - yeah. Different enough. Still the OS is the same, can use a musl chroot from a glibc system. Can use as many chroots as you want.

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