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Windows is actually pretty good OS(lemmy.world)

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kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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i doubt the average user even understands what an operating system means and they’ll just go with thatever it came with

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BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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Can confirm, I am a windows user and if my laptop came with Linux preinstalled, the way it had windows preinstalled, I’d be a Linux user.

If I ever have to Google what the hell a kernel is then I have read everything else available on the internet.

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lad@programming.dev
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To be fair, I’m using Linux, MacOS with Darwin Nix for managing it, Windows, and I still am not sure what exactly is an operating system, what’s the role of kernel and all of the possible system software is. Well, I think kernel is for hardware abstraction, but other than that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Lightfire228@pawb.social
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The kernel does stuff like

  • process and CPU task management
  • hardware abstraction
  • memory management (at the process level),
  • file system managment
  • and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

  • file managers
  • desktop rendering and window management
  • settings menus
  • sound mixing between applications
  • graphics rendering
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