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Microsoft had this shitty idea of "InstantGo" aka "InstantOn" aka "Modern Standby" aka "Connected Standby" (the namings alone give away whose idea it was). They think that people cannot wait the like 1 second when opening a laptop to return from suspend2ram / s3, and they think that laptops should be connected to networks all the time. What for I have no idea, they're not phones after all. So now laptops do not actually sleep anymore, at all. The merely run in a low power profile. The worst is that support for S3 got worse in many bios/uefi implementations, where either it doesn't work properly anymore or it is gone entirely :(

Have you looked at the video editor in Blender? I'm not much into video editing, but Blender as a whole is very solid, supports H.264 and AAC as far as I can see.

I hope you realize that Linux in this table is split up into many individual options where the others are not, i.e. that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch etc also all count towards Linux?

In January 2024 zed was open sourced, with only mac support. One week later Dzmitry Malyshau showed up with a prototype renderer for Linux. In July 2024 official Linux builds were available mostly thanks to community contributors. The swift Linux support is a tale of community steppung up to open source development, not one of manufacturer provides something. So Windows is certainly not popular with the kind of crowd that gets excited about an editor

Just imagine the world was used to subnets and NAT would be the new thing to learn. Everyone would go "NAT breaks all the time" and "portforwarding is weird" and whatnot. IPv6 is not harder, people just confuse "harder" with "not being used to".

The immutable and atomic movement in Linuxland is very exciting. Cloud native distro building with docker/podman in CI pipelines is just insane: Building+testing+deployment with ci/cd can now not only be done with some python package, but a whole distribution. Also Wayland, Pipewire, Flatpak and Btrfs are great stuff. Of course they don't get developed in one release cycle, but in recent years they made large leaps and became default on many distros.

I mean OS updates are necessary, from security updates to support for new hardware. Stuff like init scripts were a suboptimal solution to begin with, it is not like that old stuff was a good solution. Xorg also doesn't fit how modern computers work, and is merely a collection of bandaids that is inherently unable to reach sane security by todays standards. So its not like progress is entirely superficial. And also with Flatpak there has emerged a way of shipping stuff such that used libraries can be shared but do not have to be, and every app can move at its own pace without conflicting with other apps or the OS. So at least in Linux land, especially in the last couple years, there has been great advances from a technical point of view. And those tackle also the problems arising when a huge number of indipendent parts come together, which were naturally very pronounced for Linux in the past.