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> chromebooks Huh, that's a name I haven't heard in a while. WSL, on the other hand...

• uh_uh 5y ago
  The idea of WSL would have been laughable back then. I'm really curious what other unthinkable things will happen in the next 30 years.
  • wmf 5y ago
    Check out Interix and Services for Unix. The surprising thing about WSL from a 90s perspective is that it's Linux-flavored instead of Solaris-flavored.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    It was already there in Windows NT, had Microsoft been more serious about it, and very few would have bothered with GNU/Linux.
• mkr-hn 5y ago
  Opening up a Linux tab in the open source Windows Terminal from Microsoft would have seemed like dark magic to someone in the '90s. Or maybe I am a witch...
• kube-system 5y ago
  There are way more chromebooks in the wild than there are installations of WSL
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    If we constrain the market to US, maybe.
    • kube-system 5y ago
      30.7 million sold just in 2020. 40 million has been forecasted for 2021. Various stats for the number of software developers on the planet cite numbers between 24 and 26 million. MS doesn't, to my knowledge, post stats on WSL installations, but it's not 30 million+
      • pjmlp 5y ago
        I bet the amount of Windows PC sold worldwide beats that. Yes not everyone installs WSL, because it is a tool for sell PCs to GNU/Linux developers that rather pay Apple and are neither buying Chromebooks nor Apple laptops.