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Microsoft Windows must be one of the world's biggest Linux distributions.

• ffhhj 2y ago
  The Closed Linux.
• DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  WSL provides the means to run a distribution, it doesn’t provide its own. Ubuntu is the default, but others are officially supported.
  • Dalewyn 2y ago
    The joke is that Windows provides a refined frontend to the otherwise fervid chaos that is Linux, and thus makes Windows de facto the largest (and best?) Linux distro.
    • __loam 2y ago
      > best Lmao
• autoexecbat 2y ago
  Isn't it just a linux VM with some nice guest intergrations?
• ThrowawayR2 2y ago
  Anyone remember a zinger from Linus Torvalds a couple of decades ago: "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-9-28-03-questions-for-linus-torvalds-the-sharer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/the-way-we-live-...)? Horribly ironic that the Year of Linux On the Desktop™ turns out to have been ushered in by Microsoft as a subsystem firmly under Windows' thumb. How the old /. crowd would have wailed and gnashed their teeth to find out what the future turned out to be.