@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...
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wesgeorge@mstdn.social 7 months ago@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.
bobhy@wehavecookies.social 7 months ago
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.
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.