Many don't get replaced at all... A lot of people bought a PC to access the internet as there was little choice at the time, a lot of those people have moved onto tablets, gaming consoles and smartphones since then so while they still have a PC, it is probably gathering dust, won't be replaced if it dies and probably doesn't get used much if at all.
Those other architectures were forced into the highend niche, and eventually died out... The same is happening to intel now, they are forced into the highend niche where arm chips are suitable for an increasing amount of day to day tasks, and only people with specialised requirements currently require the higher performance intel chips. Fast forward a few years and the increased volume of sales for the arm chips provides more development money, and arm starts overtaking intel in performance too.
WSL talks natively to the kernel, but the apps running inside of it talk to WSL and not directly to the kernel. Wine talks natively to the Linux kernel, and the apps running inside of it talk to wine and not directly to the kernel.
The desktop is dying... Windows is a niche, it only exists on desktops and lowend corporate servers, it's just that it's a relatively visible niche.
A desktop computer was once the only way to access the internet and various other things, now it isn't and users are moving to more suitable devices like tablets. Local applications are on the way out, so the client being used becomes irrelevant and there are many better and/or cheaper client options than windows.
MS may be the single biggest "os seller", but in terms of live installs linux must have orders of magnitude more than windows once you consider android and all the embedded devices. Most people have more devices in their homes running a linux kernel than windows now, they just aren't very visible.
If the init system works, then it gets out of the way and doesn't bother you... In this case there is very little difference.
If something breaks and you need to debug it, systemd is a pain to debug especially for someone who has experience of the previous system and/or shellscripting, as the entire init process is a collection of scripts which you can read and modify to suit your needs. To change traditional init, you just need to know shellscripting (which any linux sysadmin should already know inside out)... To change systemd you need to learn a new system with its own configuration format that's not used for anything else.
Lack of updates depends on the use case and configuration of the machine, and live kernel patching is available for linux (while live patching of the userland without rebooting has been possible for years)...
If your system is minimal, then there is very little that needs to be patched, and linux is much easier to make a minimal install than windows where there are too many interdependencies and network listening services which can't be turned off etc.
So i often have systems which go a year or more without needing any updates, and certainly no reboots.
Cygwin is more like libwine, you can compile windows code and link it against libwine to provide a native linux binary. It's designed to make porting of applications easier, but gets little use because most windows applications don't have source available. Cygwin on the other hand gets a lot of use because most unix apps do come as source.
Wine is more like WSL, it can run native already compiled binaries.
There are NO general purpose os's which are suitable for average users... All of the major systems will work ok assuming they are freshly preinstalled on supported hardware, nothing goes wrong, the user doesn't do anything obscure or try to add any additional apps... Where they all fall down is troubleshooting and maintenance - if something breaks, fixing it is beyond the average user's ability. Users won't like having to enter commands into a terminal on linux, but having to use regedit on windows is even worse - at least with a cli you can cut+paste commands from a howto etc.
All of the operating systems in use today were designed by geeks for geeks, and windows is the worst of the lot. People use it because they have to, not because it's a decent tool for the job, and thats why a lot of light users are now abandoning it in favor of devices like phones and tablets - previously a desktop computer was the only way to access the internet, now there are many tools which are far more suitable for average users.
IP banning just doesn't work anymore, thanks to NAT... It's not uncommon to have millions of mobile subscribers behind a small pool of addresses, ban one and you ban every user of the same provider.
Which makes for less portable code... You'll have to maintain multiple versions for different architectures (x86, amd64, arm, arm64 etc), and it won't support other architectures unless you also implement a C version as well. Porting to a new architecture becomes a lot more work.
There will be many more users than developers, wasted processor cycles have to be multiplied by the number of users out there... This translates to a significant amount of power wasted when spread over millions of devices. This also adds up in virtualized environments, if you're running many instances of something than any inefficiencies are multiplied.
Blind recruitment is a good test to see if those recruiting are allowing race of gender to affect their decisions...
And based on the outcome of the above study, it seems that people *ARE* discriminating based on gender, they are favoring females but this bias has not resulted in a majority female workforce because their bias cannot overcome the lack of qualified candidates.
Increasing diversity should never be a goal in the workplace. Ensuring fair and non discriminatory hiring practices is a worthwhile goal.
And *WHY* are these levels unequal? In most western countries, everyone has access to the same education in the same government run schools. If you waste your opportunities by not bothering to study in school, why should you then be able to walk into a job ahead of someone who worked hard to study?
Only they don't retain what was good from their culture, they try to bring everything (especially the bad) and force it upon the people already there. There was a reason most migrants left the countries they came from, and it's usually down to destructive aspects of their culture resulting in an unpleasant environment to live in. If they take all those things to a new country, pretty soon that country will become just as unpleasant and people will be wanting to leave it too.
Well those companies should have thought about that before they got locked in to a proprietary technology... As that technology dies they will look dated and insecure, and once it's dead they will have no choice but to spend the money to replace it. They made the decision to get locked in to a proprietary technology not considering the long term impact of doing so, and now its coming back to bite them. Hopefully they will consider properly in future.
Well that's also a good point, how many people *intentionally* access flash content, vs those who access a site that just happens to have unwanted flash content (ads, background trackers etc)... Most browsers these days prompt you whenever a site contains flash content, and a surprising number contain content which isnt visible.
Or look at it another way.. People who bought the original may be angry that the servers are now turned off, and not buy the followup. People who can now play the original for free may decide they want to buy the sequel.
Bitcoin mining seems an ideal fit for gamers, most gamers will have powerful GPUs which should mine with decent performance, you just need to program it to stop once they start playing a game.
The only 64bit versions of windows for alpha were development versions that were never released publicly (although it would be interesting if they did release them, just for historical curiosity).
Although alpha was a 64bit chip, it used backwards compatibility flags in the compiler to get it to appear as a 32bit cpu for nt.
It could however run 32bit x86 code through emulation... The emulation wasn't all that fast, but alphas were much faster than x86 cpus available at the time so even after the emulation overhead you had reasonable performance for the time. The difference today, is that arm is significantly slower than x86 even when running native code and the emulation will harm that further.
Only they don't... The masses will just download a copy thats been cracked by someone else. DRM schemes only inconvenience paying customers through compatibility problems, decreased performance and decreased stability. As a customer i would also be offended to know that so much development effort has gone into customer-hostile features like drm instead of improving the actual product.
I don't think i've ever met anyone who would prefer to pirate a game, but decides to buy it at full price if a pirate copy is not available.
Generally there are those who want to pay, and those who want or need to pirate.
Those who want to pirate will always do so, and will wait for a pirate copy to become available. Many people pirate because they can't afford not to, these people *might* buy a game if it becomes cheap enough, DRM has nothing to do with that, only the cost.
Those who generally want to buy games will do so, but some will pirate if they have no other choice - eg the game is not available to buy, or the drm causes too many problems for them.
Even 14+14 years is too much these days. At the time it made sense, it was a time consuming process to print books and distribute them around the world but today the internet allows instant distribution worldwide.
Most media has stopped being sold long before 14 years expires, let alone 28, and it doesn't cost anything to keep a download available...
Copyright should automatically expire once something is no longer available for purchase. Nothing is more destructive than just sitting on something, not willing to sell it but also not willing to let anyone else have it - it's like the schoolyard bully who doesn't want to play with a toy, but keeps it away and prevents others from doing so either.
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Many don't get replaced at all...
A lot of people bought a PC to access the internet as there was little choice at the time, a lot of those people have moved onto tablets, gaming consoles and smartphones since then so while they still have a PC, it is probably gathering dust, won't be replaced if it dies and probably doesn't get used much if at all.
Those other architectures were forced into the highend niche, and eventually died out...
The same is happening to intel now, they are forced into the highend niche where arm chips are suitable for an increasing amount of day to day tasks, and only people with specialised requirements currently require the higher performance intel chips.
Fast forward a few years and the increased volume of sales for the arm chips provides more development money, and arm starts overtaking intel in performance too.
WSL translates Linux APIs to NT APIs...
WSL talks natively to the kernel, but the apps running inside of it talk to WSL and not directly to the kernel.
Wine talks natively to the Linux kernel, and the apps running inside of it talk to wine and not directly to the kernel.
Not really much of a difference at all.
The desktop is dying...
Windows is a niche, it only exists on desktops and lowend corporate servers, it's just that it's a relatively visible niche.
A desktop computer was once the only way to access the internet and various other things, now it isn't and users are moving to more suitable devices like tablets. Local applications are on the way out, so the client being used becomes irrelevant and there are many better and/or cheaper client options than windows.
MS may be the single biggest "os seller", but in terms of live installs linux must have orders of magnitude more than windows once you consider android and all the embedded devices. Most people have more devices in their homes running a linux kernel than windows now, they just aren't very visible.
If the init system works, then it gets out of the way and doesn't bother you... In this case there is very little difference.
If something breaks and you need to debug it, systemd is a pain to debug especially for someone who has experience of the previous system and/or shellscripting, as the entire init process is a collection of scripts which you can read and modify to suit your needs.
To change traditional init, you just need to know shellscripting (which any linux sysadmin should already know inside out)...
To change systemd you need to learn a new system with its own configuration format that's not used for anything else.
Lack of updates depends on the use case and configuration of the machine, and live kernel patching is available for linux (while live patching of the userland without rebooting has been possible for years)...
If your system is minimal, then there is very little that needs to be patched, and linux is much easier to make a minimal install than windows where there are too many interdependencies and network listening services which can't be turned off etc.
So i often have systems which go a year or more without needing any updates, and certainly no reboots.
05:03:12 up 1418 days, 2:09, 1 user, load average: 1.29, 1.14, 1.09
Cygwin is more like libwine, you can compile windows code and link it against libwine to provide a native linux binary. It's designed to make porting of applications easier, but gets little use because most windows applications don't have source available. Cygwin on the other hand gets a lot of use because most unix apps do come as source.
Wine is more like WSL, it can run native already compiled binaries.
There are NO general purpose os's which are suitable for average users...
All of the major systems will work ok assuming they are freshly preinstalled on supported hardware, nothing goes wrong, the user doesn't do anything obscure or try to add any additional apps... Where they all fall down is troubleshooting and maintenance - if something breaks, fixing it is beyond the average user's ability. Users won't like having to enter commands into a terminal on linux, but having to use regedit on windows is even worse - at least with a cli you can cut+paste commands from a howto etc.
All of the operating systems in use today were designed by geeks for geeks, and windows is the worst of the lot. People use it because they have to, not because it's a decent tool for the job, and thats why a lot of light users are now abandoning it in favor of devices like phones and tablets - previously a desktop computer was the only way to access the internet, now there are many tools which are far more suitable for average users.
IP banning just doesn't work anymore, thanks to NAT...
It's not uncommon to have millions of mobile subscribers behind a small pool of addresses, ban one and you ban every user of the same provider.
Which makes for less portable code...
You'll have to maintain multiple versions for different architectures (x86, amd64, arm, arm64 etc), and it won't support other architectures unless you also implement a C version as well. Porting to a new architecture becomes a lot more work.
There will be many more users than developers, wasted processor cycles have to be multiplied by the number of users out there...
This translates to a significant amount of power wasted when spread over millions of devices.
This also adds up in virtualized environments, if you're running many instances of something than any inefficiencies are multiplied.
Blind recruitment is a good test to see if those recruiting are allowing race of gender to affect their decisions...
And based on the outcome of the above study, it seems that people *ARE* discriminating based on gender, they are favoring females but this bias has not resulted in a majority female workforce because their bias cannot overcome the lack of qualified candidates.
Increasing diversity should never be a goal in the workplace. Ensuring fair and non discriminatory hiring practices is a worthwhile goal.
And *WHY* are these levels unequal?
In most western countries, everyone has access to the same education in the same government run schools. If you waste your opportunities by not bothering to study in school, why should you then be able to walk into a job ahead of someone who worked hard to study?
Only they don't retain what was good from their culture, they try to bring everything (especially the bad) and force it upon the people already there.
There was a reason most migrants left the countries they came from, and it's usually down to destructive aspects of their culture resulting in an unpleasant environment to live in. If they take all those things to a new country, pretty soon that country will become just as unpleasant and people will be wanting to leave it too.
Well those companies should have thought about that before they got locked in to a proprietary technology...
As that technology dies they will look dated and insecure, and once it's dead they will have no choice but to spend the money to replace it. They made the decision to get locked in to a proprietary technology not considering the long term impact of doing so, and now its coming back to bite them. Hopefully they will consider properly in future.
Fake your user agent as safari on mac?
Well that's also a good point, how many people *intentionally* access flash content, vs those who access a site that just happens to have unwanted flash content (ads, background trackers etc)...
Most browsers these days prompt you whenever a site contains flash content, and a surprising number contain content which isnt visible.
Or look at it another way..
People who bought the original may be angry that the servers are now turned off, and not buy the followup.
People who can now play the original for free may decide they want to buy the sequel.
Bitcoin mining seems an ideal fit for gamers, most gamers will have powerful GPUs which should mine with decent performance, you just need to program it to stop once they start playing a game.
Having the ability to run your own server is a good way to deal with cheating... Run a small private server and play with people you know.
Well the language is actually from england, which is part of europe, and the americans adopted it just fine.
The only 64bit versions of windows for alpha were development versions that were never released publicly (although it would be interesting if they did release them, just for historical curiosity).
Although alpha was a 64bit chip, it used backwards compatibility flags in the compiler to get it to appear as a 32bit cpu for nt.
It could however run 32bit x86 code through emulation... The emulation wasn't all that fast, but alphas were much faster than x86 cpus available at the time so even after the emulation overhead you had reasonable performance for the time. The difference today, is that arm is significantly slower than x86 even when running native code and the emulation will harm that further.
Only they don't...
The masses will just download a copy thats been cracked by someone else.
DRM schemes only inconvenience paying customers through compatibility problems, decreased performance and decreased stability. As a customer i would also be offended to know that so much development effort has gone into customer-hostile features like drm instead of improving the actual product.
I don't think i've ever met anyone who would prefer to pirate a game, but decides to buy it at full price if a pirate copy is not available.
Generally there are those who want to pay, and those who want or need to pirate.
Those who want to pirate will always do so, and will wait for a pirate copy to become available.
Many people pirate because they can't afford not to, these people *might* buy a game if it becomes cheap enough, DRM has nothing to do with that, only the cost.
Those who generally want to buy games will do so, but some will pirate if they have no other choice - eg the game is not available to buy, or the drm causes too many problems for them.
Even 14+14 years is too much these days. At the time it made sense, it was a time consuming process to print books and distribute them around the world but today the internet allows instant distribution worldwide.
Most media has stopped being sold long before 14 years expires, let alone 28, and it doesn't cost anything to keep a download available...
Copyright should automatically expire once something is no longer available for purchase. Nothing is more destructive than just sitting on something, not willing to sell it but also not willing to let anyone else have it - it's like the schoolyard bully who doesn't want to play with a toy, but keeps it away and prevents others from doing so either.