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Re:How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') by phendrenad2 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:50PM (#31801027)
I think the difference is, Windows has kernel-side windowing(!) and 2d drawing(!), while Linux only has kernel-side resolution switching.
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Re:How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') by the_biot on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:43PM (#31802116)
Some comments here imply that it goes well beyond that (indeed drawing font characters in non-VGA text mode shows this), but I think this difference holds -- no GUI widgets or operations in kernel mode, whereas Windows had this since NT.

Certainly I always found it scandalous that MS did that GUI stuff in the kernel, even if the NT desktop was unusually smooth as a result. Remember this was at a time when MS was positioning NT as a server OS as well, a server OS with desktop GUI crap in the kernel.

Ah hell, I'm still disgusted by it.

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