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The good news is that if Microsoft becomes Micro$oft of old, you can just move off Windows and back to just normal old Linux. At the moment though, this brings
by bane 6y ago
The good news is that if Microsoft becomes Micro$oft of old, you can just move off Windows and back to just normal old Linux.
At the moment though, this brings Linux and the entire Linux software ecosystem, a pretty good desktop experience, all of the Windows hardware/software ecosystem, and very good integration between the two environments.
It's sort of everything that OS X/MacOS used to be with respect to a great GUI + nix CLI. But Apple has given about as much attention to the nix side of the software as I give the sewage lines that run under my house.
With a Windows GUI and a CLI that is one of several distros. You get the benefits of the enormous hardware support Windows provides, but all of the opensource software the open source community provides.
Who knows what the long-term strategy is, but it's suddenly made Windows useful as a development platform again, right when Apple has started taking their eyes off the ball and has been ignoring the *nix side of their platform for years.
- majewsky 6y ago> The good news is that if Microsoft becomes Micro$oft of old, you can just move off Windows and back to just normal old Linux. Not if driver developers say "we don't need to support Linux anymore, everyone uses WSL2 anyway".
- bane 6y agoThat is a good point.
- kalium-xyz 6y agoThat is EEE.
- game_the0ry 6y ago> Not if driver developers say "we don't need to support Linux anymore, everyone uses WSL2 anyway". Disagree. The success of linux has been driven by open source enthusiasm, not corporate backing, so I doubt its demise will come from a corporation. And the momentum of OEMs offering linux out of the box (Dell, Lenovo, System76, Pinebook) seems to be growing, not shrinking. Linux is winning. Have some more optimism, my friends.