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So is this complementary to the linux subsystem in windows, or a completely unrelated option?

by throwaway91111 9y ago

Infernal 9y ago
I think you've fallen victim to Microsoft's somewhat awkward naming scheme - the Windows Subsystem for Linux is the name of the "linux subsystem in windows" that you're referring to. It's not complementary or unrelated, but the same thing.
- throwaway91111 9y ago
  God that's an atrocious name.
  - paulmd 9y ago
    Microsoft's other official name for it is "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows". "BOUOW", it just rolls right off the tongue. You know what they say: "there's only 2 hard problems in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors". That team appears to be particularly bad at the first.
- TwoNineFive 9y ago
  The fundamental abusiveness of the naming of this product isn't lost on people. Every time I see "Windows services for Linux" I know very well that it's just Microsoft doing what their public manipulation thing. I've actually heard this issue discussed by the Windows admins in my company, without them having first heard my own opinion on the matter. "Why didn't they name it 'Linux services for Windows', or something sane?" My Exchange/storage admin asked. "Because that would make sense", our other Windows admin says. The discussion moved on to how Microsoft was afraid of the very notion of a product name that made it clear that Linux was doing something useful on Windows. They had to make it seem that Windows was offering services to Linux, because Linux needed the help of Windows, not the other way around.
  - jaxn 9y ago
    It is awkward, but the name is a requirement of the trademarks involved. Something about having to use your own trademark (Windows) before someone else's (Linux)
  - Spivak 9y ago
    Because they want the first word to be Windows, their brand. They do the same thing with Server for NFS.
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So is this complementary to the linux subsystem in windows, or a completely unrelated option?

by throwaway91111 9y ago

So is this complementary to the linux subsystem in windows, or a completely unrelated option?

Infernal 9y ago
I think you've fallen victim to Microsoft's somewhat awkward naming scheme - the Windows Subsystem for Linux is the name of the "linux subsystem in windows" that you're referring to. It's not complementary or unrelated, but the same thing.
- throwaway91111 9y ago
  God that's an atrocious name.
  - paulmd 9y ago
    Microsoft's other official name for it is "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows". "BOUOW", it just rolls right off the tongue. You know what they say: "there's only 2 hard problems in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors". That team appears to be particularly bad at the first.
- TwoNineFive 9y ago
  The fundamental abusiveness of the naming of this product isn't lost on people. Every time I see "Windows services for Linux" I know very well that it's just Microsoft doing what their public manipulation thing. I've actually heard this issue discussed by the Windows admins in my company, without them having first heard my own opinion on the matter. "Why didn't they name it 'Linux services for Windows', or something sane?" My Exchange/storage admin asked. "Because that would make sense", our other Windows admin says. The discussion moved on to how Microsoft was afraid of the very notion of a product name that made it clear that Linux was doing something useful on Windows. They had to make it seem that Windows was offering services to Linux, because Linux needed the help of Windows, not the other way around.
  - jaxn 9y ago
    It is awkward, but the name is a requirement of the trademarks involved. Something about having to use your own trademark (Windows) before someone else's (Linux)
  - Spivak 9y ago
    Because they want the first word to be Windows, their brand. They do the same thing with Server for NFS.
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