Comment by charcircuit
9 hours ago
Have you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.
9 hours ago
Have you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.
I have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even for USB), the graphics support is incomplete and there's lots of non-standard defaults like custom kernel images and a custom init. That's on top of all the bugs and horrible error reporting.
It still beats Windows, but given the choice, I'd much rather just use Linux properly and have all of this just work than waste my time fiddling with WSL/WSL2.
The open source community has hijacked VBox drivers to get USB pass through working and is the official solution from Microsoft to that problem (since it requires a signed driver on the host, and RedHat was authorized to sign drivers, so Microsoft can provide their drivers to work around the signing requirements of the OS)
nobody should support MicroSlop
It is Microsoft and evidently from the article Microsoft is doing a better job with their OS as Linux is what is being dropped from the free plan.
AMD dropped support for Linux on the free plan, not the other way around. Nor is this a Linux problem, because they still allow paid users to run the software on Linux.
As far as what's evident from the support thread goes, this is the closest to a justification given:
> AMD expectation is that the BASIC tier licensing level is used for simple, entry‑level needs. While more advanced, production-based workflows are aligned with paid tiers.
Looks like AMD equates Linux to professional use and Windows to simple, entry-level needs :)