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by safeharbourio 3322 days ago
Gotta love this. not exactly "embrace,extend,extinguish" but,well,ahem,cough
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johncolanduoni 3322 days ago
Removing WSL from Windows 10 S is going to extinguish Linux? And what was the extension?
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quickben 3322 days ago
Offering it on cheap laptops?
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rbanffy 3322 days ago
It's not like you can't install Linux on low-end Windows laptops. The machine I take to hackathons is a very light, very cheap, very replaceable Asus that came with Windows 8.

The next one will probably come with Windows 10 S and never actually boot into it (like the Windows 8 before it).

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quickben 3322 days ago
You can, it's very easy. That's probably why 10S is there, to stopgap chunk of the population before they see how easy it is.

Was your first laptop a cheap 10S? or chrome? or did you install it yourself on a thinkpad?

It's all marketshare with them.

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rbanffy 3322 days ago
It's probably harder to install Linux on a Chromebook than on a 10S laptop.
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safeharbourio 3322 days ago
true.

they (at msft) love linux nowadays, but only if you get a premium windows version..

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