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Shouldn’t this be “Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x”?
by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Shouldn’t this be “Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x”?
- skavi 5mo agosee Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android.
- epistasis 5mo agoIt sadly continues the same abuse of English that's present in more modern Windows. The word order makes it seems that it's a "Windows subsystem," rather than a "subsystem for Linux," that just happens to be in Windows. If English used more word cases, Microsoft's unusual choice of word order probably would have been acceptable. But probably, some half-wit VP/PM decided that everything Windows must start with the word "Windows," and here me are. Even "Windows Linux Subsystem" would be far more clear, and one word shorter, even if it is ugly.
- IshKebab 5mo agoNo, we've been through this. The WSL logic is that it's the Windows Subsystem for [running] Linux.
- haileys 5mo agoYes it's a riff on WSL. It wouldn't make sense to flip the naming around - people would then just be confused about the naming in the other direction.
- Ancapistani 5mo agoIt was mostly in jest, but consistency would be nice - even if WSL makes no sense.