diff --git a/core/sync/sync2/primitives_atomic.odin b/core/sync/sync2/primitives_atomic.odin
index bf47e6190..d65403076 100644
--- a/core/sync/sync2/primitives_atomic.odin
+++ b/core/sync/sync2/primitives_atomic.odin
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //+private
 package sync2
 
-when !#config(ODIN_SYNC_USE_PTHREADS, false) {
+when !#config(ODIN_SYNC_USE_PTHREADS, true) {
 
 import "core:time"
 
diff --git a/core/sync/sync2/primitives_pthreads.odin b/core/sync/sync2/primitives_pthreads.odin
index c0cab91e4..e85cff7fc 100644
--- a/core/sync/sync2/primitives_pthreads.odin
+++ b/core/sync/sync2/primitives_pthreads.odin
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //+private
 package sync2
 
-when #config(ODIN_SYNC_USE_PTHREADS, false) {
+when #config(ODIN_SYNC_USE_PTHREADS, true) {
 
 import "core:time"
 import "core:sys/unix"
diff --git a/core/thread/thread.odin b/core/thread/thread.odin
index fce35b124..09d23fe82 100644
--- a/core/thread/thread.odin
+++ b/core/thread/thread.odin
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package thread
 
 import "core:runtime"
-import "core:sync"
 import "core:mem"
 import "intrinsics"
 
diff --git a/core/thread/thread_pool.odin b/core/thread/thread_pool.odin
index 64cd8ea38..700eaf703 100644
--- a/core/thread/thread_pool.odin
+++ b/core/thread/thread_pool.odin
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package thread
 
 import "intrinsics"
-import "core:sync"
+import sync "core:sync/sync2"
 import "core:mem"
 
 Task_Status :: enum i32 {
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ INVALID_TASK_ID :: Task_Id(-1);
 Pool :: struct {
 	allocator:             mem.Allocator,
 	mutex:                 sync.Mutex,
-	sem_available:         sync.Semaphore,
+	sem_available:         sync.Sema,
 	processing_task_count: int, // atomic
 	is_running:            bool,
 
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ pool_init :: proc(pool: ^Pool, thread_count: int, allocator := context.allocator
 		pool := (^Pool)(t.data);
 
 		for pool.is_running {
-			sync.semaphore_wait_for(&pool.sem_available);
+			sync.sema_wait(&pool.sem_available);
 
 			if task, ok := pool_try_and_pop_task(pool); ok {
 				pool_do_work(pool, &task);
 			}
 		}
 
-		sync.semaphore_post(&pool.sem_available, 1);
+		sync.sema_post(&pool.sem_available);
 	}
 
 
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ pool_init :: proc(pool: ^Pool, thread_count: int, allocator := context.allocator
 	pool.tasks = make([dynamic]Task);
 	pool.threads = make([]^Thread, thread_count);
 
-	sync.mutex_init(&pool.mutex);
-	sync.semaphore_init(&pool.sem_available);
 	pool.is_running = true;
 
 	for _, i in pool.threads {
@@ -76,9 +74,6 @@ pool_destroy :: proc(pool: ^Pool) {
 	}
 
 	delete(pool.threads, pool.allocator);
-
-	sync.mutex_destroy(&pool.mutex);
-	sync.semaphore_destroy(&pool.sem_available);
 }
 
 pool_start :: proc(pool: ^Pool) {
@@ -90,7 +85,7 @@ pool_start :: proc(pool: ^Pool) {
 pool_join :: proc(pool: ^Pool) {
 	pool.is_running = false;
 
-	sync.semaphore_post(&pool.sem_available, len(pool.threads));
+	sync.sema_post(&pool.sem_available, len(pool.threads));
 
 	yield();
 
@@ -109,7 +104,7 @@ pool_add_task :: proc(pool: ^Pool, procedure: Task_Proc, data: rawptr, user_inde
 	task.user_index = user_index;
 
 	append(&pool.tasks, task);
-	sync.semaphore_post(&pool.sem_available, 1);
+	sync.sema_post(&pool.sem_available);
 }
 
 pool_try_and_pop_task :: proc(pool: ^Pool) -> (task: Task, got_task: bool = false) {
@@ -140,7 +135,7 @@ pool_wait_and_process :: proc(pool: ^Pool) {
 		// Safety kick
 		if len(pool.tasks) != 0 && intrinsics.atomic_load(&pool.processing_task_count) == 0 {
 			sync.mutex_lock(&pool.mutex);
-			sync.semaphore_post(&pool.sem_available, len(pool.tasks));
+			sync.sema_post(&pool.sem_available, len(pool.tasks));
 			sync.mutex_unlock(&pool.mutex);
 		}
 
diff --git a/core/thread/thread_windows.odin b/core/thread/thread_windows.odin
index b44ec8f36..b8f8d15c0 100644
--- a/core/thread/thread_windows.odin
+++ b/core/thread/thread_windows.odin
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 package thread
 
 import "core:runtime"
-import "core:sync"
+import sync "core:sync/sync2"
 import win32 "core:sys/windows"
 
 Thread_Os_Specific :: struct {
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ _create :: proc(procedure: Thread_Proc, priority := Thread_Priority.Normal) -> ^
 			}
 		}
 
-		sync.atomic_store(&t.done, true, .Sequentially_Consistent);
+		sync.atomic_store(&t.done, true);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ _is_done :: proc(using thread: ^Thread) -> bool {
 	// NOTE(tetra, 2019-10-31): Apparently using wait_for_single_object and
 	// checking if it didn't time out immediately, is not good enough,
 	// so we do it this way instead.
-	return sync.atomic_load(&done, .Sequentially_Consistent);
+	return sync.atomic_load(&done);
 }
 
 _join :: proc(using thread: ^Thread) {