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I mean, I think he is right. If everyone stopped supporting Windows, it would have long died out in favor of easy-to-install Linux distributions... probably.
by johnisgood 2y ago
I mean, I think he is right. If everyone stopped supporting Windows, it would have long died out in favor of easy-to-install Linux distributions... probably.
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- codedokode 2y agoIn reality though Microsoft just added a WSL; not bad: Linux code can run on Windows now. Also, if you want Windows to die you need to work with OEMs: I assume that most users simply use whatever OS is pre-installed.
- johnisgood 2y agoI agree.
- pjmlp 2y agoAs gray dog around the prairie, had Microsoft actually been serious with POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000, instead of some marketing material and low level effort, GNU/Linux adoption would never taken off, at least not at a level that would have mattered. With OS X on one side, and POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000 side, everyone would be doing their UNIX like workflows without thinking once to try out GNU/Linux. At my university we only cared about Linux on its early days, Slackware 2.0 days, because naturally we couldn't have DG/UX at home, and that POSIX support was really unusable beyond toy examples.