# Linus' NT Surprise

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/608/
> Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 608
- Date: 2025-03-30
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 00:54:46
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/8b6e89ed-822c-4709-9a38-9d8e084d3c19.mp3





### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged  on Fountain.FM")
* [LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule](https://lfnw2025.sessionize.com/ "LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule")
* [LINUX Unplugged LIVE Sunday](https://lfnw2025.sessionize.com/session/861838 "LINUX Unplugged LIVE Sunday") — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108
* [Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin](https://lfnw2025.sessionize.com/session/833133 "Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin") — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
* [Linux 6.14](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-614-features "Linux 6.14")
* [Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel Newbies](https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.14 "Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel Newbies")
* [Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O](https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.14#Support_for_uncached_buffered_I.2FO "Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O")
* [FUSE and io_uring](https://lwn.net/Articles/932079/ "FUSE and io_uring")
* [Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux](https://lwn.net/Articles/961884/ "Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux")
* [NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware "NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.")
* [NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon](https://github.com/NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon "NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon") — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardware
* [Pick: Eloquent](https://github.com/sonnyp/Eloquent "Pick: Eloquent") — Eloquent is a proofreading software for English and more than 20 other languages.
* [Eloquent - Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Eloquent "Eloquent - Flathub")
* [languagetool](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master "languagetool") — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
* [LanguageTool standalone server](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master/languagetool-standalone "LanguageTool standalone server")