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This can never be the best GNU/Linux experience because you leave up your freedom and privacy at the door of the Windows login. Anyone who is serious about the

This can never be the best GNU/Linux experience because you leave up your freedom and privacy at the door of the Windows login. Anyone who is serious about the future of openess, freedom and privacy rights in software and general should strive for the original. I advocate not to hand over MS the control over the Linux desktop.

neilsimp1 5y ago
I only had to scroll a few more lines down from your post here to find an example supporting your statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486717
TimTheTinker 5y ago
Large companies will always find a way to profit from the most valuable aspects of society at large.
phendrenad2 5y ago
Correction: This can never be the best GNU/Linux experience for people who feel the same as you do, that your privacy is highly-valuable and Windows takes some of it away. I don't agree with those feelings, so it is indeed the best GNU/Linux experience for me.
azalemeth 5y ago
I also wonder if this is the end of the "embrace" phase or the start of the "extend" one.
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sam0x17 5y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment of what you're saying. That said, that's not at all what this is. They are just making it easier to run GUI apps in WSL. This is already something you can do with VcXSrv or any windows-based X server. I've actually been using VcXSrv to run a full Ubuntu Buddgie desktop with GPU acceleration and native performance on my work machine for over a year now. If anything, this has made it easier to _get away from_ the telemetry and crap that goes along with a default windows install because windows has absolutely no idea what I'm doing within my WSL installation. So yeah, nothing to see here, if anything this is good as it makes linux more accessible to people stuck in windows-only environments. This isn't even M$ making a desktop environment. They have just written an X server into windows instead of having to install one yourself. side note: I'd also be quite happy if Windows slowly removed the windows parts and replaced them with unixy parts until the whole windows ecosystem could be considered unix-based. That would be so great for so many reasons.

neilsimp1 5y ago

I only had to scroll a few more lines down from your post here to find an example supporting your statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486717

TimTheTinker 5y ago

Large companies will always find a way to profit from the most valuable aspects of society at large.

phendrenad2 5y ago

Correction: This can never be the best GNU/Linux experience for people who feel the same as you do, that your privacy is highly-valuable and Windows takes some of it away. I don't agree with those feelings, so it is indeed the best GNU/Linux experience for me.

azalemeth 5y ago

I also wonder if this is the end of the "embrace" phase or the start of the "extend" one.

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sam0x17 5y ago

I completely agree with the sentiment of what you're saying. That said, that's not at all what this is. They are just making it easier to run GUI apps in WSL. This is already something you can do with VcXSrv or any windows-based X server. I've actually been using VcXSrv to run a full Ubuntu Buddgie desktop with GPU acceleration and native performance on my work machine for over a year now. If anything, this has made it easier to _get away from_ the telemetry and crap that goes along with a default windows install because windows has absolutely no idea what I'm doing within my WSL installation. So yeah, nothing to see here, if anything this is good as it makes linux more accessible to people stuck in windows-only environments. This isn't even M$ making a desktop environment. They have just written an X server into windows instead of having to install one yourself. side note: I'd also be quite happy if Windows slowly removed the windows parts and replaced them with unixy parts until the whole windows ecosystem could be considered unix-based. That would be so great for so many reasons.