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I really dunno why people advocate ripping out the kernel and using Linux instead, while keeping Windows userspace. The NT kernel is the best part of Windows. It has built-in asynchronous real-time I/O. A completely plug-and-play driver model. Far more advanced permissions model. It is far ahead of the competition.

The userspace and UI of Windows is very straightforwardly modified; that's why it has changed so much every iteration of Windows. Telling people that we should keep 'Windows apps' and then rip out the kernel and use the Linux kernel instead is like saying one has a small rash, let's do chemotherapy. It is breaking a fly with a wheel.

I want to go back to the Windows 2000-era UI, with the same advancements in the kernel and core Windows technologies we have today.




>>A completely plug-and-play driver model.

this is one of the things I despise about windows that most. The Driver model.

I hate it, it causes soooooooooo many issues from security to just breaking randomly in weird ways, problems you do not have with a monolithic kernel

>> Far more advanced permissions model.

This is a double edges sword, very very easy to get into all kinds of trouble here, sometimes "less advanced" is better.

>> It is far ahead of the competition.

That seems to be subjective

>>dunno why people advocate ripping out the kernel and using Linux instead

Well my parent comment was more tongue and cheek jab at the "year of linux desktop meme"...

>>Telling people that we should keep 'Windows apps'

More about Win32 API compatibility to keep 80-90% of software working.

>>I want to go back to the Windows 2000-era UI

I 100000000% do not... Windows 2000 UI was terrible.


Because the userspace, old and baroque it is, is the compatibility layer for the existing apps. Not the kernel.

The kernel is a very nice piece of work, but it come from slightly different assumptions, than the reality turned out to need.

Btw, the recent Dave Cutler interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE) is great. Worth the 3 hours it takes.




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