Re: YouTube Linux advocate: "not remotely possible" Linux could surpass Windows on the desktop

On 10/21/2024 10:13 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2024-10-20 10:50 p.m., vallor wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:22:17 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<vf3anm$f7na$3@dont-email.me>:
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https://youtu.be/08VbexhJO4Y?t=23
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The comments on this vid about why people moved to Linux or not are
always interesting.  Most of them are pro-Linux of course.

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Hate to break the news to you, but if you have Windows, part of
Windows is "Linux on the desktop".
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I know that must eat at you...

 Absolutely none of that makes any kind of sense.

He's referring to Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Bloaty thinks MS adding it as a feature bothers me and is a victory for Linux.  He forgets Microsoft has had a *nix component available continuously for Windows for 25 years.
Rather than bother me, I'm glad MS made it so easy to run a high-performing Linux distro alongside Windows.
$ wsl --list --online
The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
Install using 'wsl.exe --install <Distro>'.
NAME                            FRIENDLY NAME
Ubuntu                          Ubuntu
Debian                          Debian GNU/Linux
kali-linux                      Kali Linux Rolling
Ubuntu-18.04                    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu-20.04                    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu-22.04                    Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu-24.04                    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
OracleLinux_7_9                 Oracle Linux 7.9
OracleLinux_8_7                 Oracle Linux 8.7
OracleLinux_9_1                 Oracle Linux 9.1
openSUSE-Leap-15.6              openSUSE Leap 15.6
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP5    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP6    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6
openSUSE-Tumbleweed             openSUSE Tumbleweed
And you can create and distribute your own WSL distros.