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Comment by usrusr

19 days ago

So that's what's keeping Microsoft from just running WINE on an MS-flavored Linux or perhaps a clean slate kernel as their next OS. I've been wondering for a while, this is by far the best explanation.

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bombcar  19 days ago

The Windows Kernel (and arguably the Windows APIs) are the only good part of Windows; they should dump everything else and run Linux above it; wait they did do that and then changed it to a boring VM.

  • dfe  17 days ago

    I was disappointed when Microsoft dropped original WSL.

    I'll admit I wasn't a Windows user at the time, nor since for that matter. But I had been before.

    I knew the history of the "Windows Services for UNIX" and thought that it was incredibly interesting to have the Windows kernel, full driver support, NTFS, and the ability to just use Windows normally, but also be able to just do UNIX-type stuff more or less normally.

    Which is what I've been doing on my Mac since the early 2000s.

    Then Microsoft had to make Windows a complete shit-show. Not like it hasn't happened before, but they really got themselves in deep this time.