> I wish Windows/MS would abandon NT and just create a Linux distro. I don't know anyone who particularly likes NT and jamming multiple systems together seems like an awful idea.
I do. The NT kernel is pretty clean and well architected. (Yes, there are mistakes and cruft in it, but Unix has that in spades.) It's not "jamming multiple systems together"; an explicit design goal of the NT kernel was to support multiple userland APIs in a unified manner. Darwin is a much better example of a messy kernel, with Mach and FreeBSD mashed together in a way that neither was designed for.
It's the Win32 API that is the real mess. Having a better officially supported API to talk to the NT kernel can only be a good thing, from my point of view.
I do. The NT kernel is pretty clean and well architected. (Yes, there are mistakes and cruft in it, but Unix has that in spades.) It's not "jamming multiple systems together"; an explicit design goal of the NT kernel was to support multiple userland APIs in a unified manner. Darwin is a much better example of a messy kernel, with Mach and FreeBSD mashed together in a way that neither was designed for.
It's the Win32 API that is the real mess. Having a better officially supported API to talk to the NT kernel can only be a good thing, from my point of view.