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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostBasically, yes. You don't need to bother with running those pesky Linux OS's on your hardware. Run Microsoft Windows on your hardware. Then, if you want some Linux, you can layer it on top in a neat little package. The whole WSL thing is clearly a strategy to keep Windows as the primary OS. Literally all of Microsoft's efforts involving FOSS are to maintain their vendor lock, by positioning Windows OS as the primary OS, with Linux as some secondary containerized little thing. In Microsoft's worldview, they want to make Linux into an App that runs on Windows.
I was an Ubuntu supporter in the past, but I'm asking myself if they are an MS shell company at this point.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
This just shows the size o Ubuntu in the market. Contrary to what some linuxers believe, Ubuntu is the de-facto desktop Linux distro. If you look around, a lot of specialized software out there targets Ubuntu first. Even if they have packages for other distros, Ubuntu is listed first. All big companies out there do the same, like Valve and AMD.
On the other hand, some developers refuse to provide Ubuntu/Debian packages out of spite, shooting themselves on the foot because some childish fanboyism.
That said, I've seen anecdotes that Flatpak delivers on its "just works" promises more reliability, with people who've used both saying Snap had more trouble with things like not honouring the host desktop's dark mode setting and forcing them to give up when trying to do stuff like sandboxing network access while both were a breeze with Flatpak.
...plus this blog post from 2018.
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostBasically, yes.
You don't need to bother with running those pesky Linux OS's on your hardware. Run Microsoft Windows on your hardware. Then, if you want some Linux, you can layer it on top in a neat little package.
The whole WSL thing is clearly a strategy to keep Windows as the primary OS. Literally all of Microsoft's efforts involving FOSS are to maintain their vendor lock, by positioning Windows OS as the primary OS, with Linux as some secondary containerized little thing. In Microsoft's worldview, they want to make Linux into an App that runs on Windows.
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Originally posted by evasb View Post
They let this pretty clear with that patch that piped DirectX to WSL2 without porting DirectX to Linux. Now will be possible to do apps on Linux that will work only on WS2.
I was an Ubuntu supporter in the past, but I'm asking myself if they are an MS shell company at this point.
TL;DR Canonical has probably been a willing shill for Microsoft ever since Microsoft discovered it "loves" Linux (...as long as it runs under its thumb). Now shoo people, call me a conspiracy theorist and go host your projects over at Microsoft's Github. Just don't come crying wolf when this whole "Microsoft loves Linux" thing blows up.
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Originally posted by AsciiWolf View PostWhat about official GUI apps support (and integration into Start menu)? Still nothing?
This blog post highlights the WSL updates being made over the past few months, in addition to some sneak previews of our upcoming features and future plans. WSL 2 distro support is now available in Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 An update on running Linux GUI apps in WSL WSL –install with distro support is coming soon to Insiders Access Linux file systems using WSL Open-sourcing TensorFlow with DirectML The latest Linux kernel versions are now being automatically updated via Microsoft Update on all WSL devices WSL 2 support is now available in Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 We’ve heard feedback on how many users have enjoyed using WSL 2 and have made WSL 2 available to more Windows users with this backport.
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostYou don't need to bother with running those pesky Linux OS's on your hardware. Run Microsoft Windows on your hardware. Then, if you want some Linux, you can layer it on top in a neat little package.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
This just shows the size o Ubuntu in the market. Contrary to what some linuxers believe, Ubuntu is the de-facto desktop Linux distro. If you look around, a lot of specialized software out there targets Ubuntu first. Even if they have packages for other distros, Ubuntu is listed first. All big companies out there do the same, like Valve and AMD.
On the other hand, some developers refuse to provide Ubuntu/Debian packages out of spite, shooting themselves on the foot because some childish fanboyism.
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