> VSCode and WSL makes Windows awesome for web development it is, MS care about keeping people on windows, even through it sometimes doesn't look like it That

> VSCode and WSL makes Windows awesome for web development it is, MS care about keeping people on windows, even through it sometimes doesn't look like it That was the idea of WSL after Microsoft realized they kind had lost the server wars (if you want to call them that) and people in science degrees frequently ended up using Linux, too (not just STEM but also others, e.g. Linguistics): make it so that people which normally might have tried out Linux because they use tools which are Linux first don't have to try it out and in turn might never notice that it has become fairly usable for a lot of use-cases even for non tech enthusiasts but they love Linux sure, and they surely didn't do anything to make it harder to install Linux on new system in recent times like trying to convince vendors to not ship the 3rd party certificate needed to install linux with secure boot enabled similar for VSCode, MS realized there are huge groups of people they will never convince to use VisualStudio so they made a IDE just for them, even open source and then increasingly adds more and more MS proprietary extensions they believe are long term essential for productive using it but sure MS has changed and definitely isn't having any bad idea like Embrace, extend, and extinguish anymore ... or maybe they just realized they need to be a bit more soft with their approach and care a bit more about image anyway I'm (actually, not sarcastically) sure a lot MS Dev, including such involved in this projects, acted only with best intention not having EEE or anything like that in mind problem is huge companies like MS are in the end committed to abuse their power as much as they can get away with which currently means playing somewhat nicely and embracing competition ... for now