Name one thing Linux can do that Windows can't

Name one thing Linux can do that Windows can't.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT
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superuser.com/questions/296020/windows-kernel-name-version
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntoskrnl.exe
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Run without spying on you.

can Windows run on my TP-Link WR841?

update without turning off

Be part of a fully functioning GNU operating system.

give you a hard time trying to install something

running on less than 128mb ram
run on architectures other than x86 and arm
perform well on supercomputers
virtualization (hyper-v doesn't even support gpu passthrough)

Rofi

Update. My Windows is stuck on this one update and it fails every time so boot up is like 15 minutes. Deferring and manual install don't work

dir C:\$mft\foo without freezing the file system.

>comparing akernel to a whole OS
How rude

>implying Linux isn't an OS
How uneducated

Windows is a kernel too.

Check and mate

Make my life hard

no, Windows' kernel is NT

fpbp

>hyper-v doesn't even support gpu passthrough
Are you stupid?

Be free as in beer

Implying anyone cares what type of porn you watch

Are you dumb? Windows can do this and even much better than Linux can.

Native sshfs.

I say this as a Windows user. Really irritating

Piss you off.

Funny, 'cause a Wikipedia search for NT brings up lots of things, except no kernel.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT

assuming you have no systemd*

Anyone who thinks Windows isn't irritating has never had to deal with the registry, and anyone who hasn't had to deal with the registry doesn't use their computer for more than facebook and games.

Not him but

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT

It's still known colloquially as the "Windows kernel"

systemd is not linux

>registry is bad hurr durr
Lmaoing at your messy config files

Be difficult to install.

That article not once refers to the Windows kernel as "NT".

Literally the first sentence, Satan:

>This article is about the Windows NT kernel

only had to deal with the registry once. and that is because i had to hard-shutdown my laptop and it ended up corrupting some system stuff. I do more than facebook and games. I do programming, software development, record audio, image editing, video editing, and mess around with other stuff as well. Never had a need to deal with the registry outside that one instance.

>one thing
Why stop at one?

Linux can:
- run without phoning home about every single thing you do
- update in background without restarting
- not update if you don't want it to
- run on

what, did they finally manage to catch up to the point where linux was 14 years ago ?

Oh I see, you're just too new. Let me enlighten you then, kid: Windows NT was an actual thing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1

I'm not denying that there some things in windows that are a pain in the ass.The way linux works can be fucking mind numbling annoying 90% of the time, especially if you trying to do some work.Linux also being more complex does not=better.

Uptime

not any of you but:
superuser.com/questions/296020/windows-kernel-name-version

Allow the user to compile the operating system into an unusable disaster.

>Ubuntu installation process
>literally click next a couple of times and type the user name and password you want to use

Is this beyond your capabilities?

be open source

"Windows NT" is the family of operating systems, named after the first OS in its line. The kernal is simply called "the Windows NT kernal". There's no specific name for it.

Not cast you into the flaming pits of hell for trying to get external libraries to work.

Raw sockets with an official api.

What is ntoskrnl.exe for 500, Alex?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_kernel

>Windows 9x kernel, used in Windows 95, 98 and ME
>Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems (including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)

it's almost like there is more than one linux OS.

>virtualization
>gpu passthrough
These two things are not the same.

>choice is bad

has a shitload of constant issues

>kernal
Hello C64 user

the kernal for the NT OS, my friend

DOS file names were limited to 8 characters, kid.

What you're failing to realize is that "NT" is not a qualifier of "kernel", but of Windows. Your problem is a combination of being too new (and not even having existed when Windows NT was released) and poor language skills.

Btw, fun fact: do you know why that version of Windows was called NT? Because its predecessor OS was called VMS, so they just incremented each letter by one.

What is ntdll.dll for 300 Alex?

How is that proof that the kernel's name is NT?

>What you're failing to realize is that "NT" is not a qualifier of "kernel", but of Windows. Your problem is a combination of being too new (and not even having existed when Windows NT was released) and poor language skills.
You make a lot of assumptions all of which are wrong. My first OS was MS-DOS back in 1990, kiddo.

Windows NT started as an OS but is now an umbrella term for the whole architecture family.

For me the only thing I really miss from UNIX is /dev/, accessing devices in NT is a pain in the ass and has to be done through complicated/slow API calls.

So by that logic, the Linux kernel's real name is vmlinuz.

>My first OS was MS-DOS back in 1990, kiddo.
So you're new but just not THAT new. Okay.

>Windows NT started as an OS but is now an umbrella term for the whole architecture family.
I'm not denying that.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntoskrnl.exe

Createfile isn't slow or complicated

>yet another article that not once refers to the kernel as "NT"
Stop, you're embarrassing yourself.

ntoskrnl.exe(Short forWindows NToperating systemkernel,) also known askernel image, provides the kernel and executive layers of the Windows NT kernel space,

>not hog up 60gigs of my hard drive just for the os
>go 3 months without crashing and having to reinstall/system restore
>let me uninstall worthless bloatware i don't use
>let me install updates at my leisure rather than when the computer decides its time to update

>I don't have anything to hide so I'm ok with spying on me

Start thinking about others and the principle of companies spying on its own.

Systemd doesn't spy on you
Freetards would flip the fuck out. Stallman himself advertises fsf distros that come with systemd

IOMMU support is an essential part of virtualization. gpu passthrough was just an example to demonstrate that their IOMMU support is seriously lacking

Read and write the kernel.

>be told you're just embarrassing yourself showing off your poor language skills
>double down on it
I made a drawing for you. Maybe this time around you'll stop.

But I don't
>t. Gentoo

Great if you just want to access a harddisk or removable storage (you'll still run into access denied errors if trying to write to a mounted partition). But if you want to do anything like access /dev/mem (\Device\PhysicalMemory in NT) you can't do so in usermode, you have to write a driver to do it. It's not impossible to do what you can do with devicefiles in UNIX, but you have to jump through so many additional hoops which is why I prefer UNIX in this area.

>your messy config files
Pic related, an elegant and simple configuration system.

>Linux also being more complex
It's not, you're just an idiot.

The only time anyone uses the term NT is when talking about the windows kernel. Colloquially, NT means the kernel

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free 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 “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux 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. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Not really no. We also use it when referring to the entire family of operating systems originating on Windows NT and the work of Dave Cutler.

>muh sysvinit
>muh minimalism

Type enforcement and mandatory access controls.

You shouldn't be able to access physical memory from usermode, that isn't a good idea at all

>being this retarded
There is a reason you don't see an operating system just called 'linux'

There's a reason why people ask
>do you run Linux
Dumbass

Linux exactly fits the definition of an OS.
These days a bit supplemented by fuse/udev, but that's a different issue.

>run windows 2000
>so what ? 68k? what other noteworthy arches are there
>he he he
>you know nothing about VM's dont you

too dumb to click next? unless you have some sort of outdated (16bit) software it will install and run , simple as that

You can do both in Windows without any issue.

Yes, there is a reason: because most people can't notice the difference between a kernel and a kernel, libs and other things that make an OS.

Linux does what Windon't xddddd

>not phoning home constantly
>constantly download and install updates in the backgroud

activates my almonds

have a functional command line

Linux is way simpler than Windows.

You must be really fun at parties

>install windows past 98
>insert boot media
>do you want to install?
>yes
>where
>here
>name pls
>user
>okay installing now
>done and booted

woa so hard

amiga OS is almost linux [tm]

It's literally the same for every non-meme linux distro

just use windows 7 , 20gigs max w/ all updates
you can literally uninstall EVERYTHING and disable system feature if you so desire , until it breaks ofc
and updates are not automatic when you disable automatic updates ,also didn't linux constantly update in the background ?

this guy thinks installing linux is hard
probably shouldn't have a computer

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>Name one thing Linux can do that Windows can't.
>virtualization
>can't
>but but muh gpus are better on linux that means virtualization hasn't existed on windows for years, things cease to exist when they're not as gooder as other thingses
It's like words don't have meaning anymore.

Work

It used to be able to host a friendly thread. That was fun

>hurr user UUIDs are not pretty named

no someone thought installing windows was hard , read what i reply to , installing an OS is not hard
never really was , even in DOS days all you did was execute "install" and it did its thing , asking you for install media every now and then (dos 6.22 took 3 floppies afaik , could be more)