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That sounds fun. I tried to design an assembly game once, but found I lack the creativity to design puzzles/goals that are not just "implement this common algorithm in assembly language". The idea of bootstrapping a PC from virtual firmware and writing an OS sounds nice, though.

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Ballmer also gave us the maligned Windows Vista and Windows 8. Microsoft has also been way more open source friendly during Nadella's tenure, whereas Ballmer was openly hostile to FOSS. I'll take Nadella, thanks (although he should fix his user-hostile spyware).

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Indeed. And importantly, you could tell exactly which UI elements were which. It's sometimes genuinely difficult to tell if an element is text, a button, or a button disguised as a link on Windows 10/11.

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> Windows exists to enable the user to do whatever he wants

It's very bad at that, then, considering it insists on getting in my way any time I want to do something (_especially_ something off of the beaten path).

> If the user wants to play a game or watch a video, Direct3D is there to let him do that. If he doesn't, Direct3D doesn't get in the way.

I don't see what the point you are trying to make is, this is no different on Linux. What does D3D being in the kernel have to do with _anything_? You can have a software rasterizer on Linux too. You can play games and watch videos. Your message is incoherent.

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I'm sure Windows is perfectly capable of driving a GOP framebuffer. That doesn't mean the kernel has an actual GPU driver.

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That's interesting, why would notepad.exe use mmapped files?

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> Arguably asyc/await could help with this; obviously it didn't exist in 1991 when Linux was created

Wouldn't that just consist of I/O operations returning futures and then having an await() block the calling thread until the future is done (i.e. put it on a waitqueue)?

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Linux has changed dramatically since its first release. It has major parts rewritten every decade or so, even. It just doesn't break its ABI with userspace.

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