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Windows also has Linux now. I can play Windows games and use Linux on Windows (WSL) I don’t see the point of running Linux distros on bare metal anymore.
by kgraves 5y ago
Windows also has Linux now.
I can play Windows games and use Linux on Windows (WSL)
I don’t see the point of running Linux distros on bare metal anymore.
- valine 5y agoBare metal Linux is much faster than Linux on windows in my experience. Also does nothing to address all the other windows rot like ads in the start menu and excessive telemetry.
- distrill 5y agoWSL is a nice to have gnu inside of windows, but one of the reasons I switched to linux was because I enjoyed setting up a window manager and configuring my status bar, writing custom scripts for keybindings, general fiddling. There are distros that compete with windows in the UI space, and maybe those don't make much sense anymore. I'm sort of answering my own question here too - people that don't love tinkering for its own sake may not ever be driven away from windows.
- boardwaalk 5y agoThe filesystem (NTFS) being god awful slow with large numbers of files is a good reason. It boggles my mind that Microsoft has not gotten around to making this better. Apple even introduced introduced a new FS (APFS) and migrated people silently and successfully.
- 72deluxe 5y agoI thought NTFS was pretty advanced with low-level compression and file streams etc. that I am not sure are available on APFS. Apple had the luxury of doing an upgrade of everyone's filesystem under iOS as a test, then a rollback a few versions ago which is why it took so long to perform the upgrade. Microsoft haven't got such a large userbase to test on (without permission).
- hulitu 5y agoTrust. Windows is a forein OS with backdoors.