Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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    2 months ago

    Making WSL open source could actually lead to some useful contributions and better transparency overall ; and good for Linux tools?

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    2 months ago

    I know there’s a lot of hate for Microsoft on Lemmy, but WSL is one of the best parts of Windows. It’s really powerful and well integrated to Windows. Since I still can’t leave for pure Linux install, I’m glad for WSL.

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      2 months ago

      Funny that the Linux is best part of Windows lmao

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      2 months ago

      WSL made windows tolerable in the time I had to use a windows machine for work.

      macOS is still the better choice for corp approved work, integrates decently with IT systems and is a “real” unix system underneath.

      Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.

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        Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.

        I would say it depends more on the commitment of the IT admins to support and manage a fleet of Linux workstations. There are Linux “Active Directory” servers, configuration provisioning tools, ways to centrally and automatically rollout updates, etc. It really depends on if the IT guys invest the same amount of effort to support them or not.

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          2 months ago

          2000 people, 3k+ devices and one dude wants a Linux laptop.

          Not happening 😀

          But it did work in a smaller company of around 30 people, mostly because the IT guy was a Linux user too

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            Well I worked for a while at a large international corporation that maintained (and AFAIK is still continuing) a managed Linux system, which worked well enough. And there where a lot more people, especially the people that were the most productive, interested in it.

            Sure that might have just been a nice island inside the larger company, but the people there were the internal consultants, which often had to pull other projects out of the gutter.

            If you over your specialists ways to use the tools they need, you will improve the whole company.

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            2 months ago

            Easy fix, install proxmox and run corpo-os in that as well as a proper desktop os. Just need to max out the ram on the shitbox thet give you and now you can switch almost seemlessly

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        IT just said no for WSL “ask your manager”

        My manager barely knows how to read his email

        and doesn’t understand why I want 3rd screen

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      The only Windows PC I use is my work computer.

      GPO blocked WSL.

      I can’t even escape to a command line with the right flavour of slashes between directories. For eight hours a day, all hope is lost.

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    2 months ago

    Fair play to Microsoft here. Hopefully we see some pull requests from non-ms employees and a better wsl experience for us all

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    2 months ago

    Garbage on top of garbage. The true nature of macroshafts desperate grasp to get control of linux.

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      2 months ago

      Its a godsend when you have to use Windows for whatever reason and you can have a functional OS to do things with.

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    2 months ago

    I am legit excited to install WINE Subsystem for Linux

    Or how about KDE on ReactOS on WSL?

    The possibilities are endless

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      2 months ago

      Means that now anyone can fork the project and make changes or iterate on it without needing to wait for Microsoft to fix things.

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          Np! Also forgot to add, I haven’t checked the license but generally with proper open source projects (as in not just source available) it means that even if Microsoft tries to revert this at any point, having forks of this version and continuing to develop and distribute versions of it is A-OK

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    2 months ago

    I still will never understand why it’s not called Linux Subsystem for Windows.

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    fuck microsoft and windows so hard. had to reinstall that shitshow on my mothers computer because a driver update fucked the whole networkstack… they throw error codes and what not but give no help whatsoever. the conclusion of everyone for every problem is to reinstall windows… shitshow of an os, keep your dirty hands of linux!! can’t wait to nuke it and install linux there and have no windows machine left