Re: [tlug] linux installed on lenovo ideapad

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 10/28/24 08:48, Darren Cook wrote:

> > I was curious why Microsoft decided to put
> >         Windows Subsystem for Linux
> >         
> >         (WSL) within their Windows operating system.  I thought they
> >         would
> >         
> >         want to ignore the existence of Linux.  But instead, they put
> >         this in.
> >         
> >       
>       
>       In large companies everyone will be using the same OS (and quite
>       often the same machine, e.g. Dell), as it is then easier to
>       support. And if you are going to choose one OS, it is going to be
>       Windows, isn't it.
>       
>       
>       So it is customer-demand (mainly developers). The world is now
>       built on open source projects, so it is just Microsoft being
>       pragmatic.
>       
>       
>

Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age but... for the last few year's it's been bean-counters making those decisions and developers have had little say in the matter.  If you want the job, you work with the tools you're provided.  For years I complained about developing firmware using a Java compiler provided by a company with a single customer (us).  On the day I was being laid off as the division was being shut down, my boss said "well if you had only made that work..."

The Linux chaos does have it's downsides of course.  IME...??

I do remember reading a critique of the implantation Linux NTFS long ago as being really sloppy code pushed in by Microsoft developers but I've occasionally used it with no problems.

That said however -- the NTFS file permissions,  UTF16 vs UTF8, endian-ness, etc and those of the native Linux variety are fundamentally very different so I wonder how they managed to put those various Microsoft square pegs into the various round holes of Linux.

And that said, hopefully I'll never be shoe-horned into a Microsoft/Windows environment.