how does this handle SELinux on Fedora? Is SELinux below the userland, so it doesn't factor in at all?
New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
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Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#12Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago.
I tried Ubuntu on Windows 10, and found it too wonky. I switched over to running Xubuntu in VirtualBox!
It feels like there's different groups inside MS that are working from fundamentally incompatible premises
It's always been like this.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#13Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
It seems to me like the issue is that its just a really large ship and will take a while for the whole company to get on board with the new philosphy. Redmond wasn't built in a day.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#14Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
I have also not seen any anytime. It is also true that I only use managed Enterprise, and a pro at home where I have o365 subscription.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#15Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
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Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#16how does this handle SELinux on Fedora? Is SELinux below the userland, so it doesn't factor in at all?
IIRC SELinux is an LSM which runs in the kernel.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#17They can do this all they want but no amount of linux in windows is going to get me back to using it on my main home desktop. I have no choice at work (an all MS stack: c# and sqlserver) but yeah I'll just stick to VMs, docker, or linux on bare-metal. I get the latest kernels, the ability to run anything in the nix ecosystem without arbitrary drawbacks.
*Arbitrary is harsh, they did a lot of heavy lifting to get Windows, but it's still early and still rough imo.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#18Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
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Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#19Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions.
I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.
Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
#20Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems