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by throwawayswede 1683 days ago
Windows is trying to swallow linux. That's all there is to it.
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Koshkin 1683 days ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish... Soon enough WSL2 will have (nice) capabilities that the natively installed Linux won't.
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oblio 1683 days ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish... what? Desktop Linux marketshare is 1% at best.

Linux won on mobile (Android - 70%+), server (hard to say, maybe 90%?), cloud (same) and "big" embedded (have no idea, but it's used for most retail routers, various tools, etc), it can't be extinguished.

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fmakunbound 1683 days ago
Cool. Then I’ll create Linux only applications and be compatible on both platforms. Bye bye to Win32, I guess.
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rafaelvasco 1683 days ago
There was a reason for me to dual boot Linux before. There's no reason now. Windows now fulfills all my needs. OS singularity.
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rbanffy 1683 days ago
Not sure if the pun was intended, but Microsoft had an experimental OS called Singularity.

Legend says it was so heavy it sucked.

Ba dum tsss

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pkrumins 1683 days ago
Not just trying to swallow, they have pretty much swallowed it. The one last thing that is missing is `cryptsetup` support in WSL and as soon as that works, I don't see using Linux myself anymore.
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