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Look at that fragmentation! (lemm.ee)
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Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 114 points 9 months ago

MS so jealous that their biggest innovation in the last decade was ... to put Linux in Windows.

That and ads in the start menu.

[-] Cicraft@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Context, please? Not trying to discredit, I'm just dumb

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which lets you basically run linux kernel along side the windows kernel which lets you do a lot of cool stuff like containers, linux apps, whole DEs, etc.

It was pretty cool for like 5 minutes until people realized that keeping windows around was kind of pointless and we should just be running pure linux lol.

It's still a good feature, but it just gives you a direct comparison of linux vs windows which tends to outshine windows.

[-] abcd@feddit.de 24 points 9 months ago

Maybe it’s me but calling it Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW) would‘ve been more accurate in my opinion.

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The naming of WSL sort of makes sense because it's actually build upon a kernel feature, which hass been mostly unused for more than a decade, called subsystems. There's the 'subsystem for Win32', which is the primary one that all Windows applications use, and then there were also the 'subsystem for POSIX' as well as the 'subsystem for 'OS/X'. WSL was simply a reboot of that technology.

The funny part is that this turned out to be too complex so WSL 2 ditched all that and simply uses a VM running the actual kernel in the background, so the name isn't even accurate anymore.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

"subsystem for posix" etc. might be accurate but they put a WORD before it that messes it up. Now it reads like Windows subsystem, For linux. Yeah there is a software which is windows subsystem for linux. Its called wine. (Maybe W in wine stands for windows subsystem for linux lol)

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

No, you're spot on. Microsoft is dogshit at naming things.

What's the difference between an Xbox one x and an Xbox series x? Where is windows 9? What the fuck is a Zune anyway?

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kindergarten teacher: "can anyone count to ten?"

Microsoft raises hand: "1, 2, 3, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10"

[-] SeekPie@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

They had the perfect chance to name the console after xbox one the xbox two

[-] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

What was weird was one of my friends who is "baffled by my choice of Linux" let me know about this subsystem and said "hey, look! There's no reason to use Linux again!"

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

it's one of those niche developer tools that ends up highlighting how fucking appalling windows is for developers .

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

Why would it be pointless to keep Windows when it is capable of running (al be it slowly) Linux software?

It is like saying Linux is pointless because of Wine.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

It was pointless to keep windows at all. Pure linux is much cooler and running it inside windows was pointless. Unlike wine which runs windows programs inside linux which is big deal

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

Plus it's slow as shit typically

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago

They're talking about Windows Subsystem for Linux. Basically reverse WINE.

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Don't forget about AI

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