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Post by _Windows on Aug 13, 2019 14:40:39 GMT
Microsoft has been enhancing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and allowing Linux distros for it into the Windows Store (Ubuntu is one of them). Navigating to the WSL files through Explorer is now possible, and people have managed to get Linux GUI apps to run in Windows 10. It should be interesting to see what effect this has on the Linux userbase.
There is also an open source terminal app by Microsoft that is a lot better than the default one. Microsoft claims to not have done any formal testing on it, but from my brief experience with the app it works well.
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Aug 13, 2019 19:20:00 GMT
I don't think it's a good thing at all. Microsoft has always performed the best under situations of intense competition, see Windows XP and Windows 7. Windows 10's quality and uniqueness (or lack thereof at this point?) will only drop when Microsoft changes its business model.
Linux and Mac have always been the primary competitors to Microsoft Windows, and now that Microsoft is changing its business model to focus less on competing with them, the operating system quality will go down (already has) and I can see them trying to drop Win32 over time entirely. It's not a good thing no matter what way you spin it.
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Aug 13, 2019 20:49:33 GMT
I don't think it's a good thing at all. Microsoft has always performed the best under situations of intense competition, see Windows XP and Windows 7. Windows 10's quality and uniqueness (or lack thereof at this point?) will only drop when Microsoft changes its business model. Linux and Mac have always been the primary competitors to Microsoft Windows, and now that Microsoft is changing its business model to focus less on competing with them, the operating system quality will go down (already has) and I can see them trying to drop Win32 over time entirely. It's not a good thing no matter what way you spin it. I don't think many system administrators will be sad that Windows is becoming more compatible with Linux. |
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Aug 13, 2019 20:53:04 GMT
I don't think it's a good thing at all. Microsoft has always performed the best under situations of intense competition, see Windows XP and Windows 7. Windows 10's quality and uniqueness (or lack thereof at this point?) will only drop when Microsoft changes its business model. Linux and Mac have always been the primary competitors to Microsoft Windows, and now that Microsoft is changing its business model to focus less on competing with them, the operating system quality will go down (already has) and I can see them trying to drop Win32 over time entirely. It's not a good thing no matter what way you spin it. I don't think many system administrators will be sad that Windows is becoming more compatible with Linux. Compatibility comes at a cost. |
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Post by _Windows on Aug 13, 2019 23:32:23 GMT
I don't think many system administrators will be sad that Windows is becoming more compatible with Linux. Compatibility comes at a cost. We'll have to see how it goes then. I can't imagine it will ever get so bad that experienced users can not cope... unless Windows ME gets repeated. |
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Post by Idonthaveasound on Aug 14, 2019 0:13:09 GMT
Compatibility comes at a cost. We'll have to see how it goes then. I can't imagine it will ever get so bad that experienced users can not cope... unless Windows ME gets repeated. very happy with windows 10 migration at work. i migrated over 100 computers to windows 10 (enterprise version). no issues from me or any users. in fact people prefer 10. things are easier to use and much quicker. obviously i disable most crap with group policy. i use mac at home tho so idk. |
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Post by _Windows on Aug 14, 2019 0:19:17 GMT
We'll have to see how it goes then. I can't imagine it will ever get so bad that experienced users can not cope... unless Windows ME gets repeated. very happy with windows 10 migration at work. i migrated over 100 computers to windows 10 (enterprise version). no issues from me or any users. in fact people prefer 10. things are easier to use and much quicker. obviously i disable most crap with group policy. i use mac at home tho so idk. Yeah, group policy is a must have for any serious use of Windows 10. I have the Education edition which is actually just a variant of the Enterprise edition. I've had no issues with it so far. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2019 1:32:46 GMT
I wonder how the cross-translations for the system calls between Linux and Windows must work. I'm genuinely impressed users were able to get Linux GUI apps to work with w10.
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