Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too

There's been recent reports that Microsoft is bringing sudo to Windows as discovered in recent Windows 11 Insider previews. This was briefly confirmed today by Microsoft in a since-removed blog post as well as noting that it's open-source...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Windows-sudo

[mirmirmir]

"Windows is no longer profitable so Microsoft turning it into Linux to lessen the burden" theory is confirmed

[TruthPropeller]

It's not just the GitHub repo link that doesn't work; The link to the blog post doesn't exist as well.

EDIT: I archived a cached version of the blog post here.

[TemplarGR]

I have been saying it for many years now, Microsoft's long term plan is to turn Windows into a Linux distribution, a Linux core with their Windows APIs and userland on top. It is a slow transition but it will definitely happen. This is just another small step towards their goal.

[tildearrow]

Was runas not enough? What will happen to the Windows architecture?

[skeevy420]

Was runas not enough? What will happen to the Windows architecture?

It'll be like running a very polished distribution with Wine backing damn near everything. I dread the day Windows starts sandboxing every program into its own prefix. As long as it allows creating multi-app container prefixes to group games with Reshade, opentrack, and other programs as well as autoload in-directory DLLs, like script extenders, FSR, or ultrawide DLL mods it'll cover most people's needs and be somewhat easy to use and describe to use.

[hedonist]

I find this funny, i honestly like this as it means more maintainers for open source software.

As much as i dont like windows, if windows becomes a linux distribution then that means more maintainers for lower-level open source software and in general more maintainers for open source software as well. Getting windows to adhere to linux is the ultimate end-game for us.

[Quackdoc]

i've been using "sudo for windows" for ages now. "sudo is just too nifty. A different sudo for windows, but sudo nonetheless https://sourceforge.net/projects/sudowin/

[skeevy420]

Oh, do y'all pronounce it as "sue dough" or "sue doo"?

For me it's more like

[Quackdoc]

Oh, do y'all pronounce it as "sue dough" or "sue doo"?

For me it's more like

homer way for me