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    submitted 1 year ago by MRLimcon@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called β€œWindows”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Windows is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Windows added, or GNU/Windows. All the so-called β€œWindows” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Windows.

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    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 98 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm not completely convinced that isn't Nick Offerman in a wig.

    [–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I mean... The kernel is called NT, not Windows, but okay

    [–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which would make it GNU/NT…

    [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    GNU'nt

    [–] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

    Absolute GNU'NT

    [–] JareeZy@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

    What did you call me?

    [–] Asudox@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

    blasphemy

    [–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows online for 2 days and 15 hours without crashing or having to reboot for an update.

    Clearly Photoshop'd. 🀣

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I hate windows as much as the next linux user but I have to admit windows has been very stable for me despite having uptimes in the months with my work laptop.

    [–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Your preaching to the wrong crowd.

    No Linux user is gonna go "perhaps your right, I should switch to windows for its stability"

    You've had your work laptop run well for a few months with your on off daily usage. I'm sure there's many ppl here with various distros running for years without a single reboot.

    Personally I have one running as a mediaserver that hasn't been offline in two years, and I'm sure that that's young in this forum.

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don't expect anyone to switch to windows, I'm just saying this myth about windows being unstable does not align with my experiences at all. I haven't even seen a blue screen since windows 7. All the weird behavior I encountered was fixed by replacing hardware, and without reinstalling windows. Sure, linux might run even longer without rebooting, but saying windows can't go past 2 days is just a gross exaggeration.

    [–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    I literally turned on my work laptop yesterday and it blue screened on boot. (Win10). Didn't even get an uptime of 5 minutes. Its not a myth that windows is unstable (in comparison with Linux and macOS).

    And B. Take a joke, clearly my initial post is taking the piss. Windows is less stable than Linux, simply a fact. Hence the comment so people can have a laugh.

    [–] caustictrap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    My jellyfin server is on windows 11. It is stable for now. The day it crashes i will switch to linux.

    [–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

    Bruh

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wtf how do you get bash on windows and is their theme really still called Aero and their WM "Explorer"????

    [–] MRLimcon@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

    I use msys2 (https://www.msys2.org/), it uses pacman as its package manager and has a lot of developer packages (so i can compile fortran and integrating it to python). It comes with bash and a terminal, but I used windows terminal and made a profile for using msys2's bash, the same on vscode. Then I installed neofetch (https://packages.msys2.org/base/neofetch) and just saw this hahaha.

    [–] palordrolap@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Someone else already said WSL, but before WSL there was Cygwin, and before Cygwin it was probably the DOS era tbh, but you could definitely get pdksh as a DOS executable back then. (I was never quite brave enough to make pdksh the SHELL in CONFIG.SYS, but I could have.)

    As for Windows' WM being Explorer, yeah, that's basically been the case since Windows 95. The desktop itself is a special instance of a folder and the taskbar, at least up to Windows 7 (I've been out of touch since then) was a heavily modified partially-floating menu bar.

    Prior to that, Windows 3.x had something called Program Manager which Windows 8 kind of, sort of, went back to (but not really) and everyone hated it. The original Program Manager would have been better, honestly.

    Makes me wonder if the setting is still there in modern Windows to change the WM to something else. It used to be in WIN.INI, so it's probably a registry key now. No doubt deep instability will result if it's set to anything other than explorer.exe because of the deep integration that explorer.exe has with literally everything, so probably not worth trying. Also, if you start Explorer when it isn't the WM, it'll probably try to do WM things anyway and break whatever else is running.

    [–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

    DOS was ok, but when I found Linux with its cli multiprocessing, &, bg, fg, jobs, and alt-f#, my head exploded and I thought about all the time I could have saved in my years of using DOS with its single process terminal interface.

    [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    As far as switching out Explorer goes, it's not actually the window manager, that's Aero since Vista - but it is the shell on desktop editions of Windows... But not all editions. Some server editions ("core") and some specialized other ones have the shell set to literally just a cmd window. There's no taskbar, no Start, no desktop icons, etc. There's a cmd window that if closed triggers a reboot. Of course other things can be started from it.

    I'm not sure if there's a setting that could be changed to make a desktop edition behave like that or vice versa.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

    The image in cygwin or something based on it

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

    Damn. This could be a reason why there are no good filemanagers in Windows? But idk.

    [–] subignition@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's also WSL though your mileage may vary.

    [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    neofetch in WSL would report as Ubuntu (or whatever distro you chose)

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

    Thats something different

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

    Not as flexible or fast

    [–] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Git bash, also that screenshot looks like the Windows terminal app

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Looks like cygwin to me

    [–] Zhumos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    It's probably Msys2.

    Msys uses /c/ for windows drives by default. Cygwin uses /cygdrive/c/ by default

    [–] Percy_JW@kbin.zerstoererbande.de 4 points 1 year ago

    You can also install neo fetch through scoop

    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

    they forgot how to make an operating system 12 years ago, it's all windows 7 leftovers

    [–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

    This deserves a ban imo

    [–] astrsk@piefed.social 20 points 1 year ago

    +1 for using LTSC with MAS activation. It’s about the only acceptable way to run windows at home, other than doing the same thing but in an isolated VM.

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    proudly showing off that GT1030

    [–] rc_buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right? I might have an old GTX970 I could part with if old boy here wants a drastic upgrade.

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    πŸ˜„ I just got a GTX 980 out of pity for free from a friend πŸ₯³ first time 4k60Hz gaming in my live, lol

    Now I just need to get wine/proton working. Steam titles already work 😍 but I have not get bottles (installed using yay) to work yet.

    [–] olutukko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    gtx 980 gang! I got mine free my from the dad of my ex back in like 2019

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    [–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

    Considering that it says Windows for IoT Enterprise I don't think he only needs a GPU for video output.

    [–] sar1n@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

    Delete this!

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    iot version of windows using 4gb of ram on startup?!?! Oh fu... Looking at antix linux ram consumption and wiping sweat from forehead

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