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Interop to call linux commands from Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop > If Micr
by fetbaffe 9y ago
Interop to call linux commands from Windows
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop
> If Microsoft burned the Windows kernel to the ground and started with BSD or something so that Windows was actually Unix-y under the hood, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Sounds like a really bad idea. Windows NT kernel is far superior than the BSD kernel. Fact that WSL is a subsystem to NT kernel tells you that. If they need BSD support, they would implement that as well as a subsystem.
- teekert 9y agoIt only tells us that Microsoft prefers for whatever reason their own NT kernel, "Fact that WSL is a subsystem to NT kernel" tells you nothing about the quality of the BSD kernel.
- fetbaffe 9y agoSure, the BSD kernel is good, better than the Linux kernel, however why limit your options when NT kernel can easily run any subsystem? Does not make any sense. When people complain about Windows, it is usually the win32 subsystem they complain about. That has nothing to do with the NT kernel. After last major update the interop for WSL works very well.