Best of Windows — April 2024

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   Watercooler·2y

   Windows sucks

   Some people have negative opinions about Windows and prefer other alternatives. There are ways to enhance the Windows experience.

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   Watercooler·2y

   Switching to linux

   Discover the benefits of switching from Windows to Linux and find out which Linux distribution is ideal for beginners.

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   Hussein Nasser·2y

   Fundamentals of Operating Systems

   Learn about the fundamentals of operating systems and how the OS kernel works to build efficient software.

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   Hacker News·2y

   Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

   Windows uses backslash as a path separator because DOS and OS/2 used it. IBM nixed the idea of using forward slash due to incompatibility with DOS 1.x. Microsoft used forward slash as a switch character before the 8086 even existed, likely influenced by DEC's TOPS-10 operating system.

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   Hacker News·2y

   mhx/dwarfs: A fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows and macOS

   DwarFS is a fast high compression read-only file system that achieves very high compression ratios for redundant data without compromising on speed.

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   Lobsters·2y

   PowerShell: the object-oriented shell you didn’t know you needed

   Learn about PowerShell, an object-oriented shell and scripting language from Microsoft that is powerful, versatile, and has unique features compared to standard Unix shells. Topics covered include differences between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core, working with files and directories, finding duplicates, using .NET classes and COM objects, launching Internet Explorer, and customizing the PowerShell prompt.

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   Coins Bench·2y

   How to setup in 30 min your Web3 lab in Windows

   Learn how to set up your own Web3 lab in Windows in just 30 minutes. Find out the options, computer languages, IDE, web3 frameworks, and web3 security tools that you'll need.

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