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by CoolCold 337 days ago
just curious, what would be the business direction to "Linux-only code"? Don't need any trade secrets, just quick expression on the area/target auditory.

I.e. - I have tried WSLg (running GUI apps in WSL) but disabled it all together, as after running xclock and couple of things like that to ensure it works, I couldn't find any interest in running GUI apps on Linux.

I can somewhat imagine need for work purposes, if you are falling into some webdev area and need to run some tests against local browser, but that's different from my POV.

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> what would be the business direction to "Linux-only code"

Deep interaction with Linux filesystem and kernel behaviour; we've done some intercepting and trampolining Linux syscalls in run-time, and tying it all up to cloud storage APIs.

We had to fundamentally re-architect some of our code to support macOS and Windows.