@NoLifeKing
Soon, Windows will just be a desktop environment for #linux. Why invest money and time into building a kernel, drivers, and other operating system stuff if the linux community gives it to you for free. @leo
@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross others have observed that modern Windows, especially now that WSL exists, is what we got because someone wished that "everyone gets Linux on the desktop" on a monkey's paw.
@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross WSL + bash is what you get been you rub the magic lamp and tell the genie you want a usable command line on Windows. Nobody wishes for Gnome. Android is what you get when Google wishes for linux on the phone.
I'll show myself out...
@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross it's nuts though, you can run full GUI linux programs in WSL & work is very picky about what software's allowed in windows but WSL's very much "use any program in there, we don't care"
Every feature they adopt, every bit MS concedes that windows should be more like linux, is something people learn, and that lowsers the barrier to switching because they are familiar with the concept.