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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:31:38 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   Why is Windows NT such a pile of dogshit? And other fun questions I'll never get the answer to.
   
   I don't care what someone like newt says, the mistakes NT learned from Unix are quickly overshadowed by the horrid state of Windows itself. Software rot should not at all be possible yet it's a big issue in Modern NT, maybe it's due to indexing or the old ass file system. Who the fuck knows. A free clone of a timesharing operating system originally used for typesetting fucking patents beats an operating system developed by a billion dollar corporation with professionals who are supposed to know what they are doing in fucking performance with tons of files on the disk.
   
   Fucking how do you have a codebase this bad?
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:33:03 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     Yes bell labs was big when Unix was developed. But that had a small team working on it full time. Microsoft has thousands upon thousands of engineers working on NT.
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     marmosets have names (maimun@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:39:53 JST marmosets have names

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     @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com by being a billion dollar corporation

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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:39:56 JST þernia

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     @nyanide r u looking at the codebase rn?
     
     i've heard good things of NT. the bad things of windows i've read about are mostly winapi (which is why java got popular in the first place lol). and of course the rest of windows
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:40:29 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • þernia
     @pernia No, most of the code you can find anyway doesn't go past publication dates of 2001