| Git, as developed by that Linux guy? Let's rewind to 2001, courtesy of The Register: Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001. I am personally pleased they have thrown in the towel with Internet Explorer/Edge to just use the same browser as everyone else. Okay, bad for diversity, good for getting your web page to render. Next they will be emulating Windows in Linux. Not a bad idea. A few years ago I was curious as to why programs worked quicklier in Virtualbox running Windows on Ubuntu than when I booted the machine into Windows 7 mode and tried to run them natively. Plus why bother with installing driver disks and having a subsystem when the Virtualbox provided defaults were doing a better job? Then there is the file system. The Windows one might do special Windows things like animating folders flying through the air but it is always slower given the same hardware and same task. And normally you just want to copy files or rsync them. Plus there is that matter of anti-virus. That is never a problem on Linux but you need that on Windows, another little watchdog program to double check every byte for you. Can't see how that helps. The unix/linux/ChromeOS idea of considering everything to be hostile with file permissions has always worked. So I look forward to a future where Windows is just a set of UX guidelines and any 'Windows program' is secretly run in some proprietary blob that is running in some white-labelled Virtualbox clone. Maybe they end up doing that thing Apple did to move off the legacy code base where it recompiles itself. |