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Want to run Linux? Why go through the hassle of some Linux OEM when you can just keep Windows and run WSL?

• AshamedCaptain 4y ago
  This is exactly my problem with all of this. Microsoft makes a way to run Linux desktop programs on Windows, meaning that they DO care about the market share that _desktop_ Linux represents. At the same time, they make steps to make running actual desktop Linux OSes as inconvenient as possible, which incidentally makes WSL appear more and more convenient every time. At this point, the simplest explanation is malice.
  • pjmlp 4y ago
    What they care about is the market share of the developers that buy Apple devices to develop UNIX applications, and couldn't care less about Linux itself, and are now not happy with the direction macOS is going. WSL focus on Linux, because the Linux kernel ABI is the new POSIX.
  • trelane 4y ago
    Well yes. Strategically, it makes all kinds of sense for them to force people who want to run Linux into their walled garden. Sure, you can run Linux, as long as it's safely contained inside Windows, an approved version, and preferably running something that requires Windows above you (e.g. DirectX inside WSL being a thin shim). However, what makes sense for Microsoft may not be in our best interest.
  • jacquesm 4y ago
    It always was. There wasn't a day in the history of Microsoft that they were aiming for a level playingfield.