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Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#122With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft US a massive corporation with so many people, business units, departments.
A comment like yours is just like saying: "I know a buggy open-source software, why would I trust that other open-source project? The open-source community burned all possible goodwill".
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
UI of Windows is buggy and inconsistent. Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good.
> Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good. In their intended applications, which might or might not be the ones you need. The slowness of the filesystem that necessitated a whole custom caching layer in Git for Windows, or the slowness of process creation that necessitated adding “picoprocesses” to the kernel so that WSL1 would perform acceptably and still wasn’t enough for it to survive, those a…
The Windows filesystem isn't slow per se, it's a slowness caused by "a thousand cuts" type of problem.
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#124With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft employ over 100,000 engineers. I'd advise against assuming that everything produced by any of them is bad because of bugs in Windows.
Not op, and I generally agree with your assumption but not for Microsoft, as I don't think it's limited to Windows:
Teams, Office (especially online), One Drive, SharePoint, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, all became very shitty and partially unusable with increasing number of weird bugs or problems lately.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
UI of Windows is buggy and inconsistent. Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good.
>Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good. This. A while ago a build of Win 11 was shared/leaked that was tailored for the Chinese government called "Windows G" and it had all the ads, games, telemetry, anti-malware and other bullshit removed and it flew on 4GB RAM. So Microsoft CAN DO IT, if they actually want to, they just don't want to for users. You can get something similar yourself at home r…
I geniunely wonder if Windows G's start menu also use React and if the start menu, right click or Windows Search still sucks in Windows G or not :)
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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Thanks, ChatGPT.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#127Microsoft gonna release a windows flavored Linux Distro soon ;)
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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Thanks, ChatGPT.
The GPT found this and thought it was relevant:
"an introduction of library operating system for Linux" - https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#129I know we're not supposed to complain about comment quality, but -- I came here to look for interesting technical analysis but instead it's Slashdot level snipes about Microsoft the company. And yes, I also dislike Windows and Microsoft generally but this looks like a very interesting project and I'm frankly frustrated at the level of discussion here, it's juvenile. This has nothing to do with Windows, and it looks l…
I am with you on that. HN is becoming a "14 years old edgy mini-tech" Facebook.
"Microsoft bad, Linux good" kind of comments are all over the place. There is no more in depth discussions about projects anymore. Add the people linking their blogs only to sell you thier services for an imaginary problem, and you get HN 2026.
It's maybe the time to find another tech media. If you know one, I would be glad to know.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#130Copilot https://github.com/microsoft/litebox/blob/main/.github/copil...
> Extremely simple changes do not require explicit unit tests. I haven't used Copilot much, because people keep saying how bad it is, but generally if you add escape hatches like this without hard requirements of when the LLM can take them, they won't follow that rule in a intuitive way most of the time.
It is kind of alright, I use mostly on VS when coding C# or C++, for code completions, error analysis, check code quality and such.
As agent, or writing everything for me, not yet.