So what do you expect from this "rush rush" attitude with no QA and regression testing? Many eyes make bugs shallow, right? After Linus called the security people morons it turned out that the dirty COW patch was incomplete. Honestly, the latest kernels are incredibly buggy. In 4.10 (Ubuntu LTS) one of my cores went 100% in low memory (swapping) situation. And even after closing many programs the "kswapd" shit was still busy at spinning at 100%. The notorious bug 12309 where many symptoms are still present, 14505 where file descriptors and network sockets cannot be forcibly closed and removing a USB stick without unmounting leads to stale mount points, and in certain cases to oopses and crashes and so on... How amazing this enterprise garbage kernel is let alone the userspace...
No sane person expects that an alpha OS developed for 20 years to catch up even XP, even Windows ME was more stable than ReactOS is on a VM. There even no official x64 considering we live in the sunset of the 32-bit era. From my experience Wine does its job much better.
Obviously you can get better quality for money, you have to pay if you want a really good thing. Professionals want money for work. Amateurs can not create really sophisticated systems. Not enough knowledge, not enough resources, not enough money, and no engineer who could be able to orchestrate the whole project. There is no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs in the linux world. You will never-ever see such complicated softwares on linux like SolidWorks, AutoCAD... many other CADS, Visual Studio and I could list it for days.
And please don't start to argue about this until you are not a Visual Studio professional, and you know the "other side" also.
I understand some of the Stallman's ideas but they're just an ideology and zero practice. The software should be Free as in Freedom, not Free in Charge. But we have seen is that GPL makes the software Free as in Beer. Selling a GPLed software to consumers is like selling sand in a desert. That's the reason why there'll newer be "The Year of the Linux Desktop", nobody will write a clean consistent GUI and do a proper QA and regression testing if doesn't bring an income. The same goes for other FOSS projects.
With the advent of the GPL3 bullshit the commercial world shunt away from "Free Software" and began to switch to "Open Source".
One good example is GCC vs Clang. Years ago people were saying that Clang would never reach the maturity of GCC. But now many large companies like Google have switched to Clang because it has much better static analysis, PGO and better integration with an IDE which GCC refuses cause of fear of proprietary plugins. Even Linux kernel developers are considering switching to Clang. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink...
Like it or not but GCC's era will end sooner or later.
Another example is Google's Fuchsia.
When ideology and practice collide, practice always wins.
There are zero benefits of switching to the Linux kernel, this will only end up with an unnecessary modification of the userspace and QA rounds. Besides that, NT kernel is more advanced and featurefull compared to Linux.
Even Google wants to get rid of it replacing with Magenta microkernel (recently renamed to Zircon) because Linux has a flawed and archaic design (for example the broken IO, see bug 12309) and the kernel developers refuse to provide stable ABI (stable-api-nonsense).
I've always said that flat UI is a crap originated from Apple. Unfortunately many peoples' response was that I'm an idiot, it's because of less powerful mobile GPUs and it's a trend an every app must be so, bla bla bla....
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4.10 is the Linux kernel version. LTS versions use backported kernels from newer versions in point releases.
So what do you expect from this "rush rush" attitude with no QA and regression testing? Many eyes make bugs shallow, right? After Linus called the security people morons it turned out that the dirty COW patch was incomplete. Honestly, the latest kernels are incredibly buggy. In 4.10 (Ubuntu LTS) one of my cores went 100% in low memory (swapping) situation. And even after closing many programs the "kswapd" shit was still busy at spinning at 100%. The notorious bug 12309 where many symptoms are still present, 14505 where file descriptors and network sockets cannot be forcibly closed and removing a USB stick without unmounting leads to stale mount points, and in certain cases to oopses and crashes and so on... How amazing this enterprise garbage kernel is let alone the userspace...
There are 10 types people in the world: the ones who understand my joke and those who don't.
No sane person expects that an alpha OS developed for 20 years to catch up even XP, even Windows ME was more stable than ReactOS is on a VM. There even no official x64 considering we live in the sunset of the 32-bit era. From my experience Wine does its job much better.
The third one isn't true.
Actually:
Vista - Bad
7 - Good
8 - Bad
10 - Mediocre
Microsoft Tabs.
Google
Obviously you can get better quality for money, you have to pay if you want a really good thing. Professionals want money for work. Amateurs can not create really sophisticated systems. Not enough knowledge, not enough resources, not enough money, and no engineer who could be able to orchestrate the whole project. There is no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs in the linux world. You will never-ever see such complicated softwares on linux like SolidWorks, AutoCAD ... many other CADS, Visual Studio and I could list it for days.
And please don't start to argue about this until you are not a Visual Studio professional, and you know the "other side" also.
Don't worry, Google already started.
The sad truth about Linux.
Google Is Really Good At Fucked Up Design
They could fork Chromium OS, but it will be damn hard to implement the missing features.
Is Chrome OS the next Windows 10?
Android isn't Linux, fixed for you. By your logic Android wouldn't be useful except servers.
Isn't Windows 7 a better option?
Bill Gates completely left MSFT in 2014. Also It's his business to use whatever he wants.
It's not good enough.
I understand some of the Stallman's ideas but they're just an ideology and zero practice. The software should be Free as in Freedom, not Free in Charge. But we have seen is that GPL makes the software Free as in Beer. Selling a GPLed software to consumers is like selling sand in a desert. That's the reason why there'll newer be "The Year of the Linux Desktop", nobody will write a clean consistent GUI and do a proper QA and regression testing if doesn't bring an income. The same goes for other FOSS projects. With the advent of the GPL3 bullshit the commercial world shunt away from "Free Software" and began to switch to "Open Source". One good example is GCC vs Clang. Years ago people were saying that Clang would never reach the maturity of GCC. But now many large companies like Google have switched to Clang because it has much better static analysis, PGO and better integration with an IDE which GCC refuses cause of fear of proprietary plugins. Even Linux kernel developers are considering switching to Clang. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink... Like it or not but GCC's era will end sooner or later. Another example is Google's Fuchsia. When ideology and practice collide, practice always wins.
There are zero benefits of switching to the Linux kernel, this will only end up with an unnecessary modification of the userspace and QA rounds. Besides that, NT kernel is more advanced and featurefull compared to Linux. Even Google wants to get rid of it replacing with Magenta microkernel (recently renamed to Zircon) because Linux has a flawed and archaic design (for example the broken IO, see bug 12309) and the kernel developers refuse to provide stable ABI (stable-api-nonsense).
It was an issue until 1998. That's why GNOME was created. But now GNOME/GTK+ are redundant.
Aren't they using Wayland?
Yet another pointless distro.
I've always said that flat UI is a crap originated from Apple. Unfortunately many peoples' response was that I'm an idiot, it's because of less powerful mobile GPUs and it's a trend an every app must be so, bla bla bla....