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Ubuntu is Microsoft's "favorite" distro, they do seem rather made for each other. The Azure dev tools on Linux i have tried are all Snap only, or a tar file an
by phatfish 4y ago
Ubuntu is Microsoft's "favorite" distro, they do seem rather made for each other.
The Azure dev tools on Linux i have tried are all Snap only, or a tar file and maybe an rpm/deb. At the moment they seem to avoid Flatpak like the plague.
- johnny22 4y agowell to be fair flatpak isn't really meant for cli apps, and i would guess those are mostly cli apps.
- phatfish 4y agoAzure StorageExplorer is one i can recall of the top of my head. Although it's true a lot of dev tools will be CLI and not have too many dependencies (you would hope).
- Dalewyn 4y agoI would argue Microsoft's choice of Ubuntu is one based upon practicality and social inertia. As far as I'm aware, Ubuntu is still the biggest player in the consumer Linux market not counting Android. Given the need to balance upkeep costs with range of support, I can see why Microsoft chose just Ubuntu and threw the rest to the wind.
- stonogo 4y agoIt's pretty on-brand for Microsoft to select a consumer Linux distribution when building out their B2B cloud product, instead of (for instance) one of the leading business-oriented distributions.