[bennofs]

Userland heap randomization on windows is something different than ASLR. Windows 10 actually randomizes heap layout, not just the offset, by filling larger chunks in random order. So even offsets between allocations don't stay constant.

[kzrdude]

Why doesn't Linux do that, it's kind of an obvious next step?

[ChuckNorris89]

Because the Linux of today is not the product of a company or person with a focused vision but a conglomerate of devs from various foundations or corporations, each with their own agenda. A lot of things may seem "obvious" but depending who's at the helm, other stuff gets prioritized.

I remember, way back when, in college, when I would try to listen to music while my machine was torrenting a movie on the same HDD, the playback of the song would get totally borked because the queuing scheme of the linux I/O scheduler at that time could not cope with this(it was tuned for server operations) even though both Windows and MacOS could handle this scenario without a sweat since like forever.

IIRC BFQ scheduler finally addressed this later but I'm not 100% sure on this info.