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The WSL looks a lot like the embrace step of an embrace-extend-extinguish doctrine. I'll believe them more when I can write user-facing apps against their posix
by traverseda 7y ago
The WSL looks a lot like the embrace step of an embrace-extend-extinguish doctrine. I'll believe them more when I can write user-facing apps against their posix subsystem instead of requiring people to jump through many many hoops to actually install it.
Right now it just looks like something they were forced into doing because they were losing on the devtools market.
- rzzzt 7y agoWSL 2 foregoes the system call translation approach in favor of virtualization, you get a Linux kernel: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
- dhyft 7y ago>instead of requiring people to jump through many many hoops to actually install it Yeah the hoops of going to the Store, searching for "ubuntu" and clicking Install
- traverseda 7y agoAre they not still requiring this? Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux I admit I haven't used WSL in a while.
- jdsfighter 7y agoYou still need to enable the subsystem, but I don't see why most users need it on by default. It seems like an easy enough feature to prompt the user to enable (or enable for them automatically) if your application calls for it.
- nolok 7y agoPrograms and features control panel, then add/remove windows features, or through command line. The exact same thing they require to enable or disable any optional windows feature like ie 11, windows media player, I is, ...