[VRay]

Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux

Then again, WinMo 7 was way faster and more responsive than Android at the time, and look how that turned out..

[zozbot123]

The PREEMPT_RT patchset (sometimes confusingly referred to as RT-Linux) is slated to improve the kernel quite a bit wrt. "low-latency" and "responsive" workloads.

[kokey]

I'm not sure why this is such a problem in Linux, where latency is really not such a big problem in Darwin/MacOS/iOS.

[dralley]

Architected for throughput instead of latency.

[grumpydba]

> Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux

Still it's probably a lot cheaper to fix some latency issues on linux that to maintain your whole kernel. The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers, a long with kernel API instability.

[zozbot123]

> The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers

That's the main benefit with Linux. OEM drivers on MS Windows are a shit show, even on Windows 10.

[aries1980]

I don't believe you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHED_DEADLINE

[mixmastamyk]

One costs a lot to maintain, another doesn't.