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    Windows is actually pretty good OS (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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 1 week 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
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    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.