• torpak@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    At least most problems under Linux have solutions and if you are really desperate you have the option to fix it yourself in the source or pay someone to do it. Under windows, if microsoft doesn’t care about your problem, you either find a workaround or live with it.

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      1 year ago

      Because of the ginormous community, every problem has a solution in Windows.

      If it isn’t a Microsoft sanctioned solution, then multiple third party solutions exists that fix it.

      Windows has a hell of a lot more support than any Linux distribution does.

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        If it isn’t a Microsoft sanctioned solution, then multiple third party solutions exists that fix it.

        That’s not how this works. If it’s not a Microsoft-sancioned solution, it literally cannot be fixed no matter how much effort you put in. You need an API to work with Windows. If Microsoft does not provide you with an API, you can’t do it. And even if you find a way to hack together something, you have zero guarantee an update won’t just come along and fuck it. Linux distros are open source, you can change quite literally any thing about them. That is what that person was talking about.

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          the thing is, microsoft does provide stable, well-documented and backwards-compatible apis for just about anything imaginable, and even if that’s not enough, you can try interacting with the kernel directly