Is Windows Switching to Linux? plus Nvidia's ARM CPU to Rival Intel and AMD [Destination Linux 345]

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• Very nice talk. One thing I realized arround 50th minute. DJ Ware recently mentioned an interesting thing: Hardware Abstraction Layer is completely up to us (people, not equipment). Aside from money, there is no architectural reason why drivers can't be the same file for each – Windows, macOS and Linux. If Microsoft and Apple teamed up with the Linux community, then hardware manufacturers could create completely universal drivers for their devices for all systems.

• About AMD using ARM: What about RISC 5? I bet great things could come from it.

• Microsoft has never loved Linux! Sorry, but I just cannot believe they ever have! Sure some employees may love it, they use it on campus because Linux is better suited for developing networking, and clustering, but any supposed "Love" they are pretending to show for Linux is just damage control, exploitation, and part of the EEE (Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish", AKA "Embrace, Extend, and Exterminate") strategy!

  Playing it well is right Jill, but you may just be missing that you are being played yourself!

• Although I won't use anything from Microsoft on any of my devices if I don't absolutely have to, but just to entertain the idea I were on Windows, trying to install Firefox or Chrome (I hate Google too) and were faced with a survey, to the first question why I want to install another browser, my answer would be:

  Since "Because Edge is a spyware add server", isn't going to be a choice, "Other" and then in the reason field: "If you have to ask, then you are completely void of all logic and rationality!" Also: "Are you expecting I'm freaking stupid?".

• Michael won me over. I love muffins.

• AMD and Nvidia have worked with ARM cores in the past. Nvidia's efforts were in a lot of low end tablets, some small form factor computers, the Nvidia Shield, Nintendo Switch and have been appearing in vehicle projects. AMD had smaller ARM cores on some X86 designs as 'security cores' and previously developed a line of ARM based data-center CPU's which never made it to market due to a lack of outright performance. This means that both companies (with a significant advantage for Nvidia) are well positioned to design Windows for ARM compatible CPU's. However, I find it likely that it would not be a business opportunity that was interesting to Nvidia as the chip production services (such as TSMC) they have access to are pretty much fully booked on products that give them a much higher return on investment than you would typically see from a consumer grade CPU.

• AMD has said the x86 or ARM ISA doesn't really matter. They'd be open to making ARM, but they never felt the need to with them getting roughly 30%+ performance wins per gen. The M1 was good for its time, but that was more the TSMC node more than design. When comparing designs on the same node, ARM doesn't look too revolutionary.

• I think you guys have the best Linux show . I'm just an average user and you guys make me want to learn more about Linux Thanks!!!

• Window becoming Linux??? THE BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

• Maybe Microsoft will partner with IBM/Redhat and make OS/3 Warp5

• Windows will never switched to linux with windows becuase of 1 reason Backwards compatibility for them its easier maintaining windows then rewriting everythring onto completly different kernel if they went with something linux based it wouldnt be windows it would be completly disconnected from windows IMO.

  besides azure infrastructure is mostly windows server

• Very annoying trend that Edge/Windows tries to restrict our freedom of choice. I also encountered a similar thing with Chrome. I have adblock installed to avoid commercials in Youtube. Now that's over. Google has simply forbidden adblockers and if you don't remove them, you can't watch youtube videos. Yeah you can, but then you have to buy the premium. Don't tell anyone this, its just between you and me…. adblock works in Edge.

• Following apple: Windows BSD anyone?

• I always thought of the drivers being baked in as a feature for convenience and ease of use. But I never thought about it as a security advantage. very true.

• MS Edge is my browser of choice on Linux

• The future of Windows won't be Linux based. Only if Microsoft encourages Linux driver development (unlikely) and Wine being contributed by the company itself (Impossible), it would not be happening

• First?

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