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Wouldn't it have been better for Microsoft to support https://midipix.org https://midipix.org, which would have resulted in more finegrained POSIX support for W
by zmix 8y ago
Wouldn't it have been better for Microsoft to support https://midipix.org https://midipix.org, which would have resulted in more finegrained POSIX support for Windows, rather than installing an isolated machine, that runs seperate?
- hirsin 8y agoWhat isolated machine? Open up WSL, run "CMD.exe notepad", then top. You'll see the instance of notepad running, and then you can go kill it with taskmanager. People still seem to think it's a VM when it's not - the pid in the Linux system is the same pid in Windows, it just hits a different part of the kernel.
- zmix 8y agoYou are right, I was assuming, it'd be running in a VM. At least, that was what was being said, when this project got introduced to me a while ago. I still don't sympathize and would prefer Microsoft putting other efforts, than this, into making Windows more POSIX aware/compatible.
- extralego 8y agoMaybe that will still happen? Getting this bridge built on new bedrock would make the transition more optional, so the vast amounts of different user types can switch as they please.
- hirsin 8y agoYeah, when it was first released no one wanted to believe it was kernel level compat. Curious - what would you prefer to see Windows do to make it more POSIX compatible beyond the current work of making it actually POSIX compatible? I mean, you can use any package manager you like to install any Linux application - it's literally POSIX compatible.
- ape4 8y agoWhat does just "notepad.exe" do?
- hirsin 8y agoIt will also launch notepad.
- ape4 8y agoThe utf-8 everywhere is great. Microsoft should admit that their utf-16 was a mistake a provide utf-8 version of all functions - eg GetWindowTextA() GetWindowTextM() exist and now... GetWindowTextU()