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> Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are
by uncle_j 7y ago
> Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are not ported to BSD, and this provides an answer to that.
It tells developers that users will put up with the compatibility layer. Also setting up these compatibility layers has its own set of complications e.g. random things not working, sub-optimal performance etc.
The only people that have pulled it off has been Microsoft with WSL and there has been problems with that. I for a laugh setup basically a Xubuntu desktop and I had lots of odd errors being reported in the console.