Yeah, it really is like night and day. I'm an old-school Linux fanboy. I remember when the Halloween documents were fresh news. I had a four-digit Slashdot ID.

Yeah, it really is like night and day. I'm an old-school Linux fanboy. I remember when the Halloween documents were fresh news. I had a four-digit Slashdot ID. I've built LFS just for fun. I used to use a dollar sign when spelling the company's name. For most of my adult life I've had absolutely no love for Ballmer-led Microsoft. But the last few years have shown that Microsoft under Nadella is a completely different animal. Ten years ago, if someone told me that one of the best IDEs on the Linux desktop would be an MIT-licensed project from Microsoft, I'd have thought they were drunk, crazy, and high. But lo and behold, we have VS Code, and it's awesome. There's MS engineers contributing code to the Linux kernel. One of the best ad-blocking web browsers on Android is Microsoft Edge. A Debian distro (albeit one without a Linux kernel) is a 1st-party app on the Windows app store. It's gotten to the point where I'm seriously wondering how much code under the hood of their prototype demo "Modern OS" is from Microsoft, and how much is actually from Canonical. They're already adding a proper Linux kernel for WSL2. Interesting times.