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2020 will be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop
- aiscapehumanity 6y agoThe revolution will be coopted.
- CrankyBear 6y agoThe establishment has been co-opted.
- watertom 6y agoROFL!!!!!!
- rolph 6y agoso linux has a wide device presence and now its getting into the win desktop, i can only wonder how long it will take for the general public to realize windows isnt needed to install linux OS and use it for free no saas subscription required
- simonblack 6y agoAnother step along the way of Microsoft 'doing an Apple'. Apple made life easier and cheaper for itself by outsourcing its underlying OS to the BSD maintainers, thus saving itself the costs and angst of maintaining its own OS. Then they concentrated all their efforts into just making the Apple Desktop, along with several apps. I predict that in a few years, Microsoft will merely make a Windows Desktop running on top of an underlying Linux OS. For Microsoft, that will be full circle. Windows started off as a windowing app running on top of MSDOS.
- boronine 6y agoMicrosoft could make “LSW“, opposite of WSL, to virtualize legacy Windows drivers and apps on Linux. I don’t think they stand to gain much from it though.
- m463 6y agoExcept apple has backpedaled in recent years and basically let the unix underpinnings of macos ... rot. If I was in charge over there, I would immediately add a bunch of apple-curated command line tools. Think of apt-get or pacman or yum from an apple repo. What could apple do by throwing just one or two clued engineers at that? It could renew so much goodwill. part 2 would be to add an expandable/upgradable macbook pro wrt memory/ssd/etc