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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by VRay on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:58PM (#19057261)
Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux

Then again, WinMo 7 was way faster and more responsive than Android at the time, and look how that turned out..

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by zozbot123 on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:21PM (#19057505)
The PREEMPT_RT patchset (sometimes confusingly referred to as RT-Linux) is slated to improve the kernel quite a bit wrt. "low-latency" and "responsive" workloads.
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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by kokey on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:10PM (#19058002)
I'm not sure why this is such a problem in Linux, where latency is really not such a big problem in Darwin/MacOS/iOS.
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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by dralley on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:50PM (#19058460)
Architected for throughput instead of latency.
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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by grumpydba on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:44AM (#19061935)
> Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux

Still it's probably a lot cheaper to fix some latency issues on linux that to maintain your whole kernel. The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers, a long with kernel API instability.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by zozbot123 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:11AM (#19062202)
> The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers

That's the main benefit with Linux. OEM drivers on MS Windows are a shit show, even on Windows 10.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by aries1980 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:22AM (#19063094)
I don't believe you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHED_DEADLINE
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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by mixmastamyk on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:49PM (#19058454)
One costs a lot to maintain, another doesn't.
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