@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"
@patterfloof@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross At my Real Job I work on a pretty niche GUI astronomy application with multiple interlocking components. We only officially support Linux and macOS, but... apparently it runs in WSL and everything Just Works. Truly we live in the future.
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.
@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
@[email protected] Apparently there is market for that :-D
I should add ads to my distro and sell that too, gonna be rich quick… /s
@NoLifeKing @leo desktop convergence Linux/Windows & MACBSD
@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...
@bobhy @wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo I want KDE 3.5 back! (Alas, they screwed the pooch with KDE 4—utterly unusable ever since.)
You may be in luck...
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
No personal experience though.
@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"
@patterfloof @wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross At my Real Job I work on a pretty niche GUI astronomy application with multiple interlocking components. We only officially support Linux and macOS, but... apparently it runs in WSL and everything Just Works. Truly we live in the future.
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross
Oh, that's good.
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross
I'm dead you killed me bastard I'm dead now
@NoLifeKing @leo My wote for "The year of the Linux Desktop" was chromeos, but I'm fine with that too.
@leo
Good. #linux win here.
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.
@leo How does this differ from runas?
It doesn’t by much. But this one’s going into Windows 😬
@leo runas went into Windows when it was Vista.
I think I was thinking "doas" the sudo alternative! Now I'm even less sure how they differ 🤔