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Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa and Its In-House Linux Distro in 2023

• mikece 3y ago
  At this point, with all of the work they have put into Linux, I have to wonder if Microsoft is planning to release a desktop Linux distro. Sad to say, Microsoft might be the ideal company to make desktop Linux not just a reality but dominant.
  • theandrewbailey 3y ago
    When WSL was announced, I joked that Windows might move to the Linux kernel someday. I might have been right.
    • mikece 3y ago
      Wired wrote about Windows being based on the Linux kernel and being called "Winx" all the way back in 2005. If you've never read "The Microsoft Memo" featuring disgruntled Microsoft employee Linus Torvalds complaining about Steve Ballmer to Bill Gates it's hilarious right up the point that you start to wonder if the current leadership of MSFT found this article and said "Hey... this is a GREAT idea!"... https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/ https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/