Window's kernel has been a monstrosity for decades now, but they're so invested in it they can't change. I've worked directly with guys who worked on the NT kernel and they all agree it's absolute shit, but they can't break away from it either. A handheld has to be one of the worst places for it to run
So for us this is hilarious
I've also worked with people that worked on the NT kernel. I couldn't agree more. Im just waiting for the day someone exploits these anticheat kernal hooks to create the ultimate rootkit. It'll make crowdstrike look like nothing.
Knowing the level of quality with which proprietary software is written, especially extremely security sensitive software from the chinese region, you're out of luck.
There are probably dozens of RCEs and backdoors already in place, but as the target of those exploits are idiots who actually know nothing about computers, nobody noticed.
Hell, IT'S POSSIBLE TO REMOTELY TAKE OVER A RECENT ANDROID WITH ZERO USER CLICKS. Someone definitely has exploits against "anti"cheats. We know how easy it actually is.
The funny thing is even though it has been done, there's not even that much of an incentive to do it because Windows on consumer side has so little defense that most attackers opt for lazy premade viruses sold on the darkweb, and Windows on enterprise side is so insanely insecure that the only groups that make high end rootkit level software are usually government backed APTs.
Microsoft also very conveniently avoided making a new filesystem from old ass NTFS because SSDs started popping up around the time Window's IO operations were clogging every old machine with HDDs.
I remember upgrading from 7 to 8 and the disk IO just sat at a solid 100% at idle lol.
I'm curious, is this due to many unnecessary files operations (due to Windows 8 bloat), or because the file system sucks at scaling up file operations?
Both. WIndows 8 added a ton of unnecessary operations, part in due to the horrendous new PWA system they made to replace all the proven software.
NTFS meanwhile functionally reflects FAT32. It has no proper block allocation algorithm, so files get fragmented and placed in poor locations all over the physical disk. Tools like defraggler became super popular because they provided serious and visible IO gains from defragging your drives.
Compare that to ext4 which only begins to fragment once you hit something like 95%+ capacity.
Every piece of software is vulnerable (or likely vulnerable I guess), but kernel level anti cheat has been around for a while right? Why hasn't it been exploited yet?
The driver/module, "mhypro2.sys," doesn't need the target system to have the game installed, and it can operate independently or even embedded in malware, offering the threat actors a powerful vulnerability that can disable security software.
I will never stop highlighting this because it's just too funny
Yeah i mean on a level where breaks the kernel and MS is forced to stop allowing these kinds of kernel modifications like they were talking about doing after the crowdstrike incident.
Too much money. I worked on the Windows kernel from minkernel to onekernel. There were massive rewrites with the switch of the CE kernel out for minkernel when Windows Phone was in development. minkernel used to chew through eMMC memory in a few weeks on the first Windows Phone internal dev devices. Microsoft could, rewrite onekernel (I'm assuming they are still on onekernel), if they wanted. I think Windows is a dead man walking.
Microsoft keeps building up Azure Linux. Also they push Windows 365, the cloud based Windows OS for businesses (if I understand correctly). If I'm reading the tea leaves, Windows runs like shit in the cloud and is very expensive. Because of this, companies are switching to Linux containerization for their servers. Even on Azure, Linux is on 60% of the servers. Even I work exclusively on services containerized with Linux, never Windows. If Windows was so good, you'd think it would be the opposite.
Also, Microsoft makes all their money from Cloud, i.e. Linux. Which again is why Azure Linux is getting more and more development. So, imagine if you will, Windows 365 instances suddenly become Azure with a Windows userland ( Windows/Linux, not GNU/Linux). Most users wouldn't even know. If you had problems, running your software, Microsoft could allow you to drop back to Full Windows. For every Azure Linux instance running as Windows 365, that would be a significant cost savings to Microsoft, especially when everybody does everything in Chrome. If that's how it all unfolds, why would Microsoft want to put any major engineering dollars towards a kernel rewrite? They do have the money. I just don't see Microsoft every fixing the kernel root kit situation. It's 100% in their wheel house though.
There were rumours that windows would become a Linux desktop environment for a while, I can see the business case for it but the migration seems impossible
Maybe it'd be a new "Windows S Mode" situation.
Got a new cheapo laptop? Enjoy our Secure Windows Home Basic (Linux + Windows DE) and install your apps ONLY from the Windows Store (that we made sure run in the new environment)
Need full Windows? Upgrade to Pro.
I wouldn't hate a closed windows ecosystem on Linux. We would get the kernel patches and more software would work. Even if we didn't get kernel patches because windows is scummy and ignores the gpl, a common abi would still be amazing
I wonder about that. I'm probably not thinking of some very important things. Edge, Office, Active Directory, Co-Pilot, a Windows DE, userland programs(could even be GNU+Windows, don't want to forget notepad and minesweeper), Powershell, DirectX and SDKs. I think they could do it in a year or two. I just figure, if they could improve Windows in the cloud, they would have done it. And they've already got a massive head start with Azure Linux.
Right? They can still have their closed ecosystem and get their monthly check from your bank, but they could get out of the operating system business. I bet that is an expensive one with low revenue
You mean when EA's new owners do that exact thing?
Don't even try to argue that they won't. They have never had any external repercussions for anything they've ever done.
I was a mobile developer and worked on Windows Mobile and Windows CE (un-ironically called "WinCE" by Microsoft themselves) applications some twenty years ago. It was basically just Windows with a lot of unnecessary cruft stripped out. The basic UI was indeed absurd, with the standard Start menu and utterly dependent on the fucking stylus to work. But for applications it wasn't actually necessary to even use that shit. You could actually write applications that ran in kiosk mode and had nice big buttons so that users never had to deal with the Start menu or use the stylus at all. And in that mode it was actually extremely powerful -- you could do anything that you needed to do programmatically. I never once encountered a situation where something that I needed to do programmatically wasn't still available in the stripped-down WinCE API.
I remember CE! Weirdest kiosk is I ever used. I just remember it came out around the same time as Halo, so I always thought it was Windows: Combat Evolved
Steam Deck is better and you can't change my mind
NO ❌ TOUCHPAD NO 🙅 BUY 💸
Not sure I follow - both the Xbox Ally X & Steam Deck have touchscreens.
Touchpads, not touchscreens.
My bad, I suppose Trackpad is the more commonly used term.
The steam deck has 2 touchpads. They are the square things under the joysticks.
I never said it didn't? My original comment was referring to the Ally X's lack of touchpads.
You said "no touchpad no buy" to a comment about steam deck ...
I'm kind of surprised that they aren't doing Steam Deck-style trackpads. I mean, it probably saves some money, but it seems like a major drawback if the point is "run Windows games on the platform".
I don't care to look it up, but I would suspect that Valve has a patent on their trackpads in the context of a handheld console. It might be difficult or impossible for anyone else to try to utilize the same concept.
They don't, both the Lenovo Legion Go and the AYANEO Kun have a touchpad.
Microsoft must be woefully afraid of alternative input methods. I fully believe this thing wouldn't even have a Gyro if it wasn't building off the previous ROG Ally.
If that were true then 1 trackpad would've been enough, no? Like legion go. Also ayaneo kun exists and it has 2 trackpads which most likely isn't true that valve has a patent on trackpads.
I'm so glad I discovered Linux
(penguin hug)
(Linux catgirl hug)
:3
penguin is sad because... can't wear coding socks.
but... whats this?
wing warmers?!
°v°
Me ahead of time: Slapping Xbox branding on a small hardware upgrade to a handheld that already isn't selling well will probably fail.
Me now: It doesn't help your case when it's also a buggy piece of shit at release.
Congrats, Microsoft, you are this close to making the Xbox brand radioactive.
Not to mention the Gamepass price increase just before the launch lul
I couldn't have imagined this playing out any other way. You'd need major changes to Windows to make it feel sensible here. And those are expensive as hell. If this were genuinely the horse that Microsoft's investors are betting on, then I could have seen that kind of money being invested. But yeah, no, the horse~~shit~~ they're betting on is AI.
Considering how successful and profitable the steam deck was considering they have also contributed so much to linux gaming opensource software.
I quite like CyberDopamine on YouTube, and it took it literally one day from making his video on the Xbox Ally X to put Bazzite on it lol
lol.
(posted from my Steam Deck, wheee, two thumb typing!)
I suck arse at typing on the Deck. :(
I sometimes just use the touchscreen to type, when I'm feeling lazy.
Same here lol, it is an acquired skill lol, but even after over a year, I am still probably literally 10x slower at Deck typing than just with a keyboard.
Tbf the touch typing in the Old Big Picture was better than the current version
Its kind of strange to do maybe lol... but you can run desktop mode, and then run big picture mode from within that.
I... have had to do that in a couple almost certainly totally unique scenarios of me trying to get certain non steam games to run right lol, or maybe I didn't need to, but... yeah you can do that.
Well at least people can use gamepass as an affordable way to play games, the xbox ally has that... Oh wait :3
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