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james_s:
Software distribution is a pain, I think largely due to the fact that are there so many different distros, a doubled edged sword. Snap is unfortunately absolute garbage, the first thing I do with any distro that has Snap is rip all that junk out.

50ShadesOfDirt:
I think MS is trying to capture a piece of the linux world and user base ... maybe it will work to lock in a small subset of very casual linux users?

I found the integration of WSL to be similar to IE and EDGE ... buried too deeply into the OS, caused trouble at times, can't easily rip it out, etc. I'm not going to trade VMware workstation for WSL(hyper-v). But, maybe this trade fits others, or it will get better in v3.x or later of WSL. It isn't a replacement for me ...

If windows is host OS, I just run linux in vm's, and everything works as expected, including inter-vm connectivity and beyond. If linux is host OS, I just run windows in vm's, and everything works as expected.

Before vm's, I had fun with various native X11 apps on windows ... I got the mouse-tracking eye app on my Windows desktop, the clock, etc. But even that had effort to install or maintain. VM's and the OS inside them just works ...

Give me an extra monitor or three, and I'd have a hard time knowing what host OS is really running on any given monitor ...

SiliconWizard:
Of course MS is trying to capture everything it can. It already captured desktop computing for the most part. But struggled to capture much of anything else. Except more recently "cloud" services.

They invested a lot in mobile stuff, and failed.
They are investing a lot in Linux stuff, and they will fail.

But they have just so much cash that they can keep trying almost forever.

Ampera:
I can concur with WSLg being kinda poop. The only windows machine I own is my Surface Pro 8 (which is due for a good linuxing as soon as I have the time), which runs Windows 11.

Out of curiosity, I grabbed a copy of Debian and got some of my favorite Linux-only utilities running, to find out they completely butchered things like HiDPI, and just window management in general. A lot of software doesn't maximize properly, or has graphical glitches, or just straight up crashes where it wouldn't on a real machine. Maybe some of the utilities I'm using are oddball stuff, but either way it's certainly not any big whoop. Also the hardware acceleration is about as suck as one would expect, and as far as I can tell runs using some form of Hyper-V GL passthrough (since real paragpu is cool kids only on nvidia/amd).

Windows has been dead for me for a good few years, and going back to it, it feels like an alien world.

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