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I doubt that's the case. Everything they've been doing with WSL is precisely to keep you inside the Windows OS. It doesn't make sense to go the other way and gi
by RussianCow 7y ago
I doubt that's the case. Everything they've been doing with WSL is precisely to keep you inside the Windows OS. It doesn't make sense to go the other way and give you a reason to use Linux instead.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> It doesn't make sense to go the other way and give you a reason to use Linux instead. It makes sense for every business unit except Windows to make it easier to run their software on Linux/MacOS (for desktop software, more the latter, for server software, more the former.) A common shim that lets you so that with the same codebase rather than maintaining separate Linux and MacOS versions or porting the whole existsling software to a cross-platform base rather than a Windows base makes some sense. Of course it doesn't make sense for the Windows unit to promote Linux, but Windows isn't all of Microsoft.
- RussianCow 7y agoI could be wrong, but I think the overlap of people who use Linux but would also pay for Microsoft software like Office is small enough to not justify the engineering effort.