Is it just / ?

I kid. But really, besides “its all a file”, if you take away the gui, is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?

If we stripped all ms’s junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?

When you get to a very basic level, is one of them more efficiently coded?

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    From my basic understanding: Windows has a microkernel hybrid style architecture. It’s kind of like microservices. Instead of all resources being shared within a system process, You get a lot of tiny services all making calls to each other and the main kernel.

    This introduces a lot of overhead because variables need to be sent and requested between processes. And they don’t simply share them in the same memory.

    Linux on the other hand has most services under one monolithic kernel and they can all access the same memory. So there is no need for all of that intercommunication between services.

    At least that’s my basic understanding and if I’m wrong (which I probably am), then somebody on the internet will now correct me.