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[–] octalfudge 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel WSL just gives enterprises an excuse not to let developers have pure Linux machines. After putting up with horrible and buggy WSL for years, managed to have my organisation bless running proper Linux on our machines. Bye Windows, hardly ever knew you.

[–] dustyData 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90% of ICT techs would have to be fired if corporate switched to Linux. Any ops tech that knows Linux is in the bunkers babying the data center's servers, not caring for old laptops and abused browser machines.

[–] jelloeater85 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying Linux is superior to Windows, that would be a opinion. But for anyone outside of gamers (Steam Deck...) or business folks, it IS the better option. The issue is Dell isn't going to ship Ubuntu by default, for example. It's all subsidiaries, all the way down. FOSS just cannot throw their weight around like M$.

[–] dustyData 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet MS has thrown money for decades at dethroning Linux in the server space and gotten nowhere.

[–] jelloeater85 3 points 1 year ago

From what I can tell these days Microsoft only wants to compete with services not so much software these days. The operating system to them is just a tool to sell ads and to get you places. They haven't cared about power users for the last 8 years.