The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10

Post by stepik777 » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 12:28 PM UTC

frik wrote: post #120

jimsparkman wrote: post #58

So far, this has been fantastic. Our team has been seriously considering converting from Windows to Linux for embedded development. (we run Linux VM when needed) Up and running and cross compiling for ARM without issue. Really surprised how it has just worked so far. This came at a great time for us.

So far it's been very bad for us. The always-on telemetry in Win10 draws a big question mark if we can depend on Windows in future. While Windows 7 is great and around until at least 2020, an expensive move to Linux, FreeBSD or Android seems like the better option.

Post by Amezarak » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

tgarma1234 wrote: post #108

Amezarak wrote: post #82

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Sure. There are a couple things. Some of them may be be pretty petty, and some of them are something you can get in Android but aren't that way out of the box. - app organization. One swipe and I'm looking at an alphabetized list of apps I can jump to by letter. This is huge to me, so much easier to find and identify an app versus a 2d grid dominated by icons. - live tiles. My email tile shows me unread emails, photo…

One drive doesn't sync files the way dropbox or gdrive do and it's super annoying. Cortana is no better than Siri or Now in that it basically just sets a timer or dials a contact and everything else in my experience is chock full of irrelevant links and spamming listings. The one thing I actually appreciate with Windows 10 in particular is that the Weather Live tile is good and doesn't have Accuweather or the Weather…

Post by vyrotek » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #109

corndoge wrote: post #104

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- solved by any launcher - solved by any launcher - cannot comment - gmaps handles this automatically - cannot comment - baked into android since L - gdrive Nearly usability and UI struggles are easily solved with a custom launcher.

- solved by any launcher - solved by any launcher Then you have never used Windows Phone. None of the Android launchers provides the equivalent of WP tiles with the same amount of integration. There is no API that launchers could use to pull out the same amount/types of information. - gmaps handles this automatically Nonsense. It does some prefetching, but if you are in another country (no data) and you go slightly o…

Post by MichaelMoser123 » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

yuhong wrote: post #65

criddell wrote: post #54

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> Had they shipped Astoria in Windows 10 to allow Android apps to "just work" it would have destroyed their UWP strategy. Kind of like how OS/2 support of Windows applications helped destroy it?

The OS/2 2.0 fiasco is a lot more complex than this.

Post by Razengan » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 4:45 PM UTC

PeterisP wrote: post #137

Gaelan wrote: post #115

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> MacOS with the associated hardware lock-in Macs will run both Windows and (with some EFI hacking) Linux. It's true that you need a Mac to (legally) run macOS, but that's lock-out, not lock-in. Essentially it is a $1000 license to the OS and perpetual updates.

I meant that if I my standard workflows and software are on MacOS, then I'm locked in to a single hardware provider and their offering. For some cases this is a limitation. Their laptops are quite nice and the imacs are okay, but if I want to have, say, a powerful desktop workstation with a bunch of nvidia GPUs for CUDA then MacPro doesn't really cut it, and I'll have to run Linux on it; and if I need a extra seconda…