@NoLifeKing @leo @cstross others have observed that modern Windows, especially now that WSL exists, is what we got because someone wished that "everyone gets Linux on the desktop" on a monkey's paw.
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NoLifeKing@ani.social 7 months ago
Its hilarious that Windows is just bootleg Linux with ads and tracking now.
wesgeorge@mstdn.social 7 months ago
patterfloof@meow.social 7 months ago
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross it's nuts though, you can run full GUI linux programs in WSL & work is very picky about what software's allowed in windows but WSL's very much "use any program in there, we don't care"
confluency@hachyderm.io 7 months ago
@patterfloof @wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross At my Real Job I work on a pretty niche GUI astronomy application with multiple interlocking components. We only officially support Linux and macOS, but... apparently it runs in WSL and everything Just Works. Truly we live in the future.
bobhy@wehavecookies.social 7 months ago
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross WSL + bash is what you get been you rub the magic lamp and tell the genie you want a usable command line on Windows. Nobody wishes for Gnome. Android is what you get when Google wishes for linux on the phone.
I'll show myself out...cstross@wandering.shop 7 months ago
@bobhy @wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo I want KDE 3.5 back! (Alas, they screwed the pooch with KDE 4—utterly unusable ever since.)
cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
jpaskaruk@growers.social 7 months ago
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross
I'm dead you killed me bastard I'm dead now
tarheel@mstdn.io 7 months ago
@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross
Oh, that's good.
eichkat3r@hessen.social 7 months ago
@NoLifeKing @leo 2024 is the year of bootleg linux with ads and tracking on the desktop
patterfloof@meow.social 7 months ago
@NoLifeKing @leo desktop convergence Linux/Windows & MACBSD
Nicovel0@mastodon.social 7 months ago
@NoLifeKing @leo we’re only months away from Office on Linux
tudor@spacey.space 7 months ago
@NoLifeKing @leo My wote for "The year of the Linux Desktop" was chromeos, but I'm fine with that too.
denki@mastodontech.de 7 months ago
@NoLifeKing
Soon, Windows will just be a desktop environment for #linux. Why invest money and time into building a kernel, drivers, and other operating system stuff if the linux community gives it to you for free.
@leo