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I promise you the value add of WSL is nowhere near the value of a pure linux/unix system, especially for developers. This is just yet another iteration of Micro
by astrea 5y ago
I promise you the value add of WSL is nowhere near the value of a pure linux/unix system, especially for developers. This is just yet another iteration of Microsoft's embrace/extend/extinguish pipeline.
- tomnipotent 5y ago> This is just yet another iteration of Microsoft's embrace/extend/extinguish pipeline. Not this tired trope again. Azure makes a lot of money off Linux, and Microsoft has been a pretty good open source participant the last several years. But it's still a business.
- rbanffy 5y agoWSL seems to be a way to prevent developers from abandoning Windows altogether and to make it more comparable to what a Mac offers (a Unix with a polished GUI). Quite frankly, I prefer Gnome to Windows, but I can be happy with a Mac too.
- tomnipotent 5y ago> from abandoning Windows Microsoft trying to make Linux more accessible to it's HUGE professional community of programmers that are content with their OS driver but want/need accessible Linux access. The company has a decades-long track record of positive contributions to the programming community.