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Exactly because of this kind of experience, and my own at the time, I deeply believe if Microsoft had been half as serious with Windows NT POSIX compatilitly as they are now with WSL, Linux would never had taken off.

I got into Slackware Linux, as means to do university work at home, and when I started working it was Windows NT, Aix, HP-UX and Solaris. We had a couple of Linux based servers but they were used as toys, like smuggling a couple of networked games into the office.