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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    Keep dreaming, people will keep on using Windows because they don't care about the bloat, they just want something that works and that doesn't require fucking around for hours every time they plug something new in!

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    i doubt the average user even understands what an operating system means and they'll just go with thatever it came with

    [–] sukhmel 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    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)_/¯

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    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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