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So, Holla Forums, is this the year of Linux desktop? Are you going to install Linux from the ms store? :^)
My personal opinion is that this is absolute cancer and that's microsoft's way to destroy fsf, gnu and linux
Ubuntu arrives in the Windows Store, Suse and Fedora are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
John Murphy
Joseph Martinez
Smart move on Microsoft's part, funny thing is, this really is GNU and not Linux.
Liam Ross
It's a sign that they're scared of losing market share among developers. It has no real relevance for regular desktop users.
Elijah Brown
fucking disgusting
Josiah Barnes
This is not what I had in mind, at all. I want off this ride!
Samuel Gutierrez
On the bright side, maybe developers will be lazy and just start writing programs for linux since it will now work on Windows anyways.
Joshua Stewart
That would be nice.
Knowing Microsoft, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they somehow crippled it to incentivize against that. Perhaps by not fully exposing the graphics adapter or something similar.
Thomas Powell
On the bright side, you can now create applications for linux and sell them to normies running windows.
Joseph Peterson
All system calls made from non-Windows layer command shells are to be automatically batched and analyzed via Azure™ cloud services in order to improve cloud data optimization technology.
Adrian Roberts
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Caleb Lee
Allow me to interject for a moment just to correct you.
If this thing succeeds it will be the year of the GNU/Windows on the desktop as it'll be GNU running on top of the windows kernel with no Linux to be seem anywhere.
Nathan Clark
This is a DEFCON 3.
Carson Sullivan
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Sebastian Cooper
I don't get it. How do you get different distributions if they're the same os with the same crap?
Wyatt Cook
GNU/NT.
Lucas Flores
Going to these lengths shows how desperate MS is to maintain their market share. And since normalfags want to use Loonix because it's hip and cool, they'll think "cool, now I don't even have to dual boot". The saddest part is it will work. Nevermind the main reason for switching is breaking free from the MS botnet.
Every distribution has its own repositories, compiles programs with the options of their own choosing and links them against the libraries they want (the ones that offer binary packages, anyway), and bundles packages with config files, init scripts, and scripts for update-alternatives, updating the mandb, application menus, etc. Some distros even make their own modifications to some programs.
Carson Bell
Cygwin and Gentoo were there long before Microsoft even replaced ChairMonkey™ with CurryMonkey™ and started this hipstershit trend.
Xavier Allen
Yeah, previous known as gnu/redhat
William Jenkins
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Say goodbye to gnu/linux in 3 years.
Noah Price
LOL. You're like people screaming about conspiracy in Holla Forums.
We should be mefious toward microsoft, but I don't see how they could destroy fedora, debian and co.
Cooper Reyes
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Julian Sanders
Even MS admits Windows sucks dick
Ayden Johnson
i fucking love windows now
Ian Gomez
GNU/Telemetry, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Telemetry.
Jordan Flores
just like cygwin, noone will actually use it
it's just microsoft 'making up' for crummy business practices from the last few decades
thanks india
Liam Wilson
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Anthony Gray
DUDE FREEDOM LMAO
Ayden Hall
The question is how do i shield myself from the inevitable repository mix up and ends up with a GNU-Telemetry package on my Mint system?
Adrian Carter
This user knows whats up. Microsoft's tactics to maintain market share would make a drug dealer blush in shame. Never underestimate Microsoft, especially since they have the US governments tacit approval as a monopoly.
thenextweb.com
Christian Jones
Hey, I was going to post it from betanews.
betanews.com
Ian Rogers
Yes, sell. You dyslexic or something?
Josiah Morris
Stallman doesn't think there's anything wrong with selling libre software as long as the source code is given to you with it. In fact he has admitted to buying libre software on camera.
Charles James
Shit. I need to move to OpenBSD as soon as possible.
Virus are going to start targeting systemd/linux soon.
Noah Robinson
You mean always right?
Christian Hughes
Fuck I laughed harder than I should have
Sebastian Williams
link?
its not in the store
Evan Lewis
Nope, it's still using Linux syscall stubs in the translation layer. That's how they achieve ELF-64 binary compatibility.