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> WSL feels no more dangerous than Wine. Wine is not really a fair comparison against WSL, especially when it comes to comparing 'potential to extinguish the e
by pritambaral 8y ago
> WSL feels no more dangerous than Wine.
Wine is not really a fair comparison against WSL, especially when it comes to comparing 'potential to extinguish the embraced'.
Wine has nowhere near the amount and quality of resources (both human and IP) available to WSL.
- coatmatter 8y agoWine is very often cited as a 'solution' for not needing Windows at all (when the reality isn't so simple). It looks like a reasonable enough comparison.
- harrygeez 8y agoPut it this way. People who want to use Linux will keep using Linux and are very unlikely to switch. Microsoft obviously wants a piece of that Apple cake where people want a polished and consumer grade OS with a unix-y environment to write code. This is likely a response to the fact that today's web OSS dev tools are first class UNIX Cli programs