Re: YouTube Linux advocate: Linux could surpass Windows on the desktop

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:48:43 -0400, DFS wrote:

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.

But not one that worked very well. Now suddenly Linux compatibility
matters more than paying lip service to POSIX ever did. So Microsoft first
tried to add a compatibility layer (WSL1) like it did for POSIX. And just
as for POSIX, that simply wasn’t worth using.

But having token support wasn’t enough: unlike for POSIX of old, the
market is demanding real Linux support. And the “personality” system of
Windows just isn’t up to it: so it had to add a real Linux kernel.

Yes, that does represent a victory of Linux over Windows.