Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.

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    Context, please? Not trying to discredit, I’m just dumb

    • @mlg
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      521 year ago

      Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which lets you basically run linux kernel along side the windows kernel which lets you do a lot of cool stuff like containers, linux apps, whole DEs, etc.

      It was pretty cool for like 5 minutes until people realized that keeping windows around was kind of pointless and we should just be running pure linux lol.

      It’s still a good feature, but it just gives you a direct comparison of linux vs windows which tends to outshine windows.

      • @[email protected]
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        241 year ago

        Maybe it’s me but calling it Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW) would‘ve been more accurate in my opinion.

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          The naming of WSL sort of makes sense because it’s actually build upon a kernel feature, which hass been mostly unused for more than a decade, called subsystems. There’s the ‘subsystem for Win32’, which is the primary one that all Windows applications use, and then there were also the ‘subsystem for POSIX’ as well as the 'subsystem for ‘OS/X’. WSL was simply a reboot of that technology.

          The funny part is that this turned out to be too complex so WSL 2 ditched all that and simply uses a VM running the actual kernel in the background, so the name isn’t even accurate anymore.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            “subsystem for posix” etc. might be accurate but they put a WORD before it that messes it up. Now it reads like Windows subsystem, For linux. Yeah there is a software which is windows subsystem for linux. Its called wine. (Maybe W in wine stands for windows subsystem for linux lol)

        • @tourist
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          111 year ago

          No, you’re spot on. Microsoft is dogshit at naming things.

          What’s the difference between an Xbox one x and an Xbox series x? Where is windows 9? What the fuck is a Zune anyway?

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            Kindergarten teacher: “can anyone count to ten?”

            Microsoft raises hand: “1, 2, 3, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10”

          • @SeekPie
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            51 year ago

            They had the perfect chance to name the console after xbox one the xbox two

      • @itsJoelle
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        81 year ago

        What was weird was one of my friends who is “baffled by my choice of Linux” let me know about this subsystem and said “hey, look! There’s no reason to use Linux again!”

      • @merthyr1831
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        41 year ago

        it’s one of those niche developer tools that ends up highlighting how fucking appalling windows is for developers .

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Why would it be pointless to keep Windows when it is capable of running (al be it slowly) Linux software?

        It is like saying Linux is pointless because of Wine.

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          21 year ago

          It was pointless to keep windows at all. Pure linux is much cooler and running it inside windows was pointless. Unlike wine which runs windows programs inside linux which is big deal