Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
haunter
14 points
7 comments
May 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ThrowawayR2
“ He who fights with Windows should see to it that he himself does not become Windows. And when you gaze long into ntoskrnl, ntoskrnl also gazes into you. ” Seriously, is it really a victory if you have to adopt the architecture of your sworn enemy?
JoeAltmaier
Used to be a staff member working on an x86 OS called CTOS. I realized if I implemented a couple of traps, we could run command-line DOS programs. So I did. And it worked. Dev tools, text processing, piped commands all worked. It helped that the DOS executable format was the same as the CTOS format - because we had traded Bill Gates our linker (which produces executables) for his BASIC compiler.