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my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine
As far as I can tell, the main differences between oeprating systems is that they are all themed a little differently.

For example, on Windows the "X-out" button is on the top right of the window. On Apples, the "X-out" button is on the top left. Another difference is that there's no start button when you're using an Apple.

Are there any other differences you guys have noticed?

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well-read undead
Dec 13, 2022

not so far

i have noticed, however, that the main thing they have in common is that they're all pieces of poo poo

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

well-read undead posted:

not so far

i have noticed, however, that the main thing they have in common is that they're all pieces of poo poo

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
some generally make it possible to do anything and others make that terribly difficult

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

well-read undead posted:

not so far

i have noticed, however, that the main thing they have in common is that they're all pieces of poo poo

close thread

AlbertFlasher
Feb 14, 2006

Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band
some are good (freebsd) some are poo poo (windows me)

hbag
Feb 13, 2021

AlbertFlasher posted:

some are good

get this guy outta here

Hen
Aug 22, 2006

AlbertFlasher posted:

some are good

yeah they're called unikernels

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

kernel are my favorite guy

Armitag3
Mar 15, 2020

Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.


well-read undead posted:

not so far

i have noticed, however, that the main thing they have in common is that they're all pieces of poo poo

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

Some have really cool mascots like the plan 9 bunny but some are lame like the windows logo I guess?

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
windows schedules like this

linux schedules like THIS

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

cant think of any, op. theyre all pretty much the same to me.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



whose to say op

Dijkstracula
Mar 18, 2003

You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!

yo, check this one out:

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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
some operating systems can play video games and others cant

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

ADINSX posted:

Some have really cool mascots like the plan 9 bunny but some are lame like the windows logo I guess?

they all have questionable unofficial (or official) anime girl mascots

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine

Dijkstracula posted:

yo, check this one out:


akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Dijkstracula posted:

yo, check this one out:



I'm going to pretend I know what int 80h does

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

I kind of remember int 10h

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
some oses are free as in beer, some are free as in speech

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
free as in mattress

Dijkstracula
Mar 18, 2003

You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!

akadajet posted:

I'm going to pretend I know what int 80h does

morally the same thing as SYSENTER (aka SYSCALL on AMD) but with slightly different calling conventions and wildly different performance characteristics depending on your particular hardware (e: would you like to know more?) The whole "multiple ways to invoke a syscall, depending on your particular flavour of x86" is partially why you see a vsyscall section in your /proc/pid/maps; the idea is that the optimal system call implementation is chosen by the OS and shoved into that segment, so you can just execute "call 0xffffffffff600000" and it will automagically do the right thing

I mostly just wanted to dunk on "OS interface design by shoving new functionality into ioctl(2)"

e: I actually have no idea how a system call happens on x86-64 though :v:

Dijkstracula fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 8, 2023

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
same

fresh_cheese
Jul 2, 2014

MY KPI IS HOW MANY VP NUTS I SUCK IN A FISCAL YEAR AND MY LAST THREE OFFICE CHAIRS COMMITTED SUICIDE
dunno OP, none of the operating systems i use have windows to x out on them at at all.

have you considered the possibility that all the operating systems you have used are a POS?

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe

Dijkstracula posted:

yo, check this one out:



lol

moonshine is......
Feb 21, 2007

some operating systems require you to memorize weird key layouts in order to control the windows and do things. Like windows key + j to change windows.

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Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

echinopsis posted:

some generally make it possible to do anything and others make that terribly difficult

what if there were a zombo dot com operating system. what would that be like

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