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Oh, no, not more of this backwards mis-naming illogic. It's bad enough that MS abuses us with such idiocy, we don't have to copy it.
by classified 4y ago
Oh, no, not more of this backwards mis-naming illogic. It's bad enough that MS abuses us with such idiocy, we don't have to copy it.
- privacyking 4y agoI too was scratching my head as to why anyone would ever want to run a macOS terminal from within linux.
- lapser 4y agoI've wanted to do it. Mostly to test out stuff that my colleagues would need to run but haven't been able because I run Linux. So I usually have to ask colleagues to double check my work. I am aware that running macOS on non-Apple hardwade would be against their ToS.
- kergonath 4y agoYou kid, but I often wish I could run iTerm on my Linux workstations.
- Fnoord 4y agoI've switched from iTerm2 to Alacritty. It requires a different config per OS, but it works cross-platform. I combine it with tmux.
- Deukhoofd 4y agoI'd love to have a simple way to compile stuff for macOS from Linux.
- e12e 4y agoFor running xcode and building ios apps in a ci pipeline? Eg with darling[1] and godot: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.6/development/compiling/cross-compiling_for_ios_on_linux.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.6/development/compiling/cr... [1] https://www.darlinghq.org/ https://www.darlinghq.org/
- creshal 4y agoAt least Microsoft is internally consistent for once and and naming it after an older similar project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
- gw99 4y agoBased on Microsoft’s ability to plan and manage product naming I think you stumbled on a coincidence there rather than actual intent.
- e12e 4y agoI think the concept of "sub system" is quite integral to the NT kernel. Might have been easier if they had stolen the name from user-mode linux - which might be more suitable for wsl2 in some ways... But that was/is a quite different type of project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux See "Win32 environment subsystem" and "OS/2 environment subsystem" here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT Then there was coLinux: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux Maybe they should've called it LINE (after WINE)....