3 ms·

I think OP was being needlessly rude, it really isn't that painful. And to claim that network filesystems work seemlessly is laughable in my opinion. Though t

I think OP was being needlessly rude, it really isn't that painful. And to claim that network filesystems work seemlessly is laughable in my opinion. Though they are right, it does break the continuity a Linux subsystem in Windows could provide. It blows my mind that Windows engineers are building (and keeping up-to-date) an entire Linux compatible subsystem. That's a huge investment, and a pile of hairy legacy code if the project should ever die.

microcolonel 9y ago
BlackBerry worked on running Linux binaries on QNX for quite a while before coming out with Android application support in BB10. Microsoft could be looking to do something similar.
- Zardoz84 9y ago
  WSL was the result of Microsoft looking to run Android apps in Windows Mobile. Eventually they dropped the effort, and rescue it to execute docker containers on Windows.
userbinator 9y ago
Network filesystems are not perfect but they sure try very hard in a far more challenging environment than two subsystems on the same machine to give a "unified" access to the filesystem. It blows my mind that Windows engineers are building (and keeping up-to-date) an entire Linux compatible subsystem. That's a huge investment, and a pile of hairy legacy code if the project should ever die. Considering that multiple efforts by others[1][2][3][4][5], some of them working alone, have gotten quite far in running Linux binaries on Windows without any of the deep knowledge of Windows internals that Microsoft would have, maybe it's not all that huge of an investment... then again, the edge-cases are the hard part and MS does tend to like overcomplicating things. [1] https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux [2] https://cowlark.com/lbw/ https://cowlark.com/lbw/ [3] https://github.com/hackpascal/line-is-not-emulator https://github.com/hackpascal/line-is-not-emulator [4] http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/jan/linux-on-windows/ http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/jan/linux-on-windows/ [5] https://0xef.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/emulate-linux-system-calls-on-windows/ https://0xef.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/emulate-linux-system-c...

microcolonel 9y ago

BlackBerry worked on running Linux binaries on QNX for quite a while before coming out with Android application support in BB10. Microsoft could be looking to do something similar.

Zardoz84 9y ago
WSL was the result of Microsoft looking to run Android apps in Windows Mobile. Eventually they dropped the effort, and rescue it to execute docker containers on Windows.

userbinator 9y ago

Network filesystems are not perfect but they sure try very hard in a far more challenging environment than two subsystems on the same machine to give a "unified" access to the filesystem. It blows my mind that Windows engineers are building (and keeping up-to-date) an entire Linux compatible subsystem. That's a huge investment, and a pile of hairy legacy code if the project should ever die. Considering that multiple efforts by others[1][2][3][4][5], some of them working alone, have gotten quite far in running Linux binaries on Windows without any of the deep knowledge of Windows internals that Microsoft would have, maybe it's not all that huge of an investment... then again, the edge-cases are the hard part and MS does tend to like overcomplicating things. [1] https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux [2] https://cowlark.com/lbw/ https://cowlark.com/lbw/ [3] https://github.com/hackpascal/line-is-not-emulator https://github.com/hackpascal/line-is-not-emulator [4] http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/jan/linux-on-windows/ http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/jan/linux-on-windows/ [5] https://0xef.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/emulate-linux-system-calls-on-windows/ https://0xef.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/emulate-linux-system-c...