Fast machines, slow machines (2023)(jmmv.dev)

80 points by amatheus 1 year ago | 49 comments

Speeding up autoconf with caching (2022)(jmmv.dev)

21 points by jmmv 2 years ago | 11 comments

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible (2007)(jmmv.dev)

41 points by jmmv 3 years ago | 17 comments

Slow social media(herman.bearblog.dev)

142 points by rishikeshs 1 year ago | 124 comments

How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?(bxt.rs)

494 points by janvdberg 2 years ago | 263 comments

Blog post measuring input latency of GNOME 46 terminal emulators (VTE-based) compared to earlier versions and other terminals.

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison(blogsystem5.substack.com)

564 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 488 comments

Julio Merino's Blog System/5 post comparing the design of Windows NT with Unix and asking what made NT advanced and whether that still holds.

Windows native app development is a mess(domenic.me)

407 points by domenicd 7 months ago | 385 comments

Domenic Denicola's blog post arguing that building native Windows desktop apps today is a confusing mess, explaining why developers turn to Electron.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines(github.com)

411 points by overbytecode 2 years ago | 128 comments

GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.

Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux(himthe.dev)

1633 points by bobsterlobster 9 months ago | 1288 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.