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How long until windows is just a GUI layer on top of Linux kernel?

• gspr 6y ago
  I don't know, but I feel pretty sure that's where it's heading.
• netdur 6y ago
  Won't happen for the same reasons for Google to build Android replacement.
  • monadic2 6y ago
    Isn't that exactly what android is—an alternative UI on top of Linux?
    • netdur 6y ago
      correct but the mess Android have is somehow direct result of using Linux's kernel, read about Fuchsia and why it was created.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      It is more than that, because Linux isn't exposed as such to userspace.
• ThrowawayR2 6y ago
  Um, never? The average developer doesn't know or understand anything about the kernel, they just like the UNIX shells and CLI environment. The popularity of the Mac (which, BTW, doesn't use the Linux kernel) is proof of that.
  • deleted 6y ago
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• recursive 6y ago
  Windows wouldn't be windows if it didn't run 20 year old binaries with perfect fidelity.
• throwawaybutwhy 6y ago
  One Eric S. Raymond has the same hunch as you. See his latest post http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764.
  • oldmanhorton 6y ago
    The new edge is just chromium, which already ran on Linux. It seems like a stretch to suggest it is emulating the windows version rather than just being a native Linux app
• 2ion 6y ago
  This actually has tradition, see the Irix and POSIX environment subsystems of earlier WinNTs. I think the current approach by Microsoft owes to the developments in the OS and virtualization tech space both in hardware + software over the past 20 years. Otherwise, if Linux were equally dominant in the dev/server space, we could've seen a revivial of the subsystem feature. Which would have been pretty cool, from an implementation POV, in its own way.