Microsoft touting WSL is an attempt to steal market share from actual Linux. It’s designed to make people think “if Windows does everything Linux can, why do I even need Linux?”, thereby feeding Microsoft licensing money, market control, and the user’s data. It’s not a move with computer users’ nor the free software ecosystem’s best interests in mind.

  • @k_o_t
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    143 years ago

    can we just all get together and collectively cancel microsoft? pretty fucking tired of their bullshit already 😤

  • @disrooter
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    93 years ago

    I saw the opposite, I saw developers trying WSL and then migrating with confidence to GNU/Linux distros.

  • @Talenel
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    63 years ago

    You’re absolutely right. However, being forced to work with windows at work, I’m glad I have a lightweight virtualization solution that allows me to avoid a full VM.

  • @erez
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    43 years ago

    The only thing keeping me from linux is having good driver support for my laptop’s hardware. Not Microsoft.

    • @AgreeableLandscapeOPM
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      3 years ago

      Hopefully that will change with more and more companies shipping laptops with Linux. Dell and Lenovo seem to be tier-1 companies that are leading the charge, there’s also Purism and System76.

  • @space__shell
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    23 years ago

    The company I work with at the moment are tied to ASP.NET so there little to no hope of migrating back to a Linux distro. There’s talk of a .NET core upgrade but talk is cheap.