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Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Post by mixmastamyk »

this_user wrote: post #86
hardwaresofton wrote: post #26

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Oh yes, I totally forgot, that option has been around forever as well (I only mentioned QT) -- I've only written one non-trivial app in it and it wasn't the worst experience actually (but then again, it was a greenfield project, albeit close to a decade ago now)

JavaFX has been released almost a decade ago, and it's much nicer to work with. There is really no reason to be using Swing anymore.

Interesting, I wrote in AWT a lifetime ago, and swing was billed as the hot new thing then.

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Post by ghrifter »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #19
loudmax wrote: post #10

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On the other hand, we could be entering a phase where an open source developer might say "Why bother porting to Windows? Just target Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE."

tl/dr: Simply put, the cross platform distribution problem is solved (in way more ways than one), but I think the combination electron/nw.js + cross-platform-from-the-get-go languages will win, instead of other options like QT. I think it might be a waste of time to target a distribution and hope it gets ported reasonably to Windows, clouding your codebase in the process. While possibly a highly unpopular opinion, th…

Ah yes Javascript becoming the RPC layer

I sure love my data types of `int` to be IEEE 754 floating point numbers!

Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Post by figers »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #29
Shorel wrote: post #25

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I don't resent Windows, in fact I am doing updates now in the Windows OS. But just for performance and workload capacity, I can't give up Ubuntu, when installed in the very same hardware. There's something in Windows that just removes control from the user, and I say this in a very technical way.

Absolutely agreed -- I saw a different HN thread about running Windows 10 on ARM and: - thought to myself "why on earth would anyone want that" - looked at the comments, noted people who were working with legacy software that turned out to be dependent on windows, decided to keep my disparaging commentary to myself - felt sympathy with smidgen of condescension (I'm of the opinion that someone should just rewrite thos…

I want windows 10 on ARM because I want a full windows OS on a phone that I can attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse to and run Visual Studio for development. I would also take a Linux phone that did this and run VS Code

Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Post by fb03 »

Nullabillity wrote: post #36
fb03 wrote: post #6

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This is something that bothers me on my current setup (Xubuntu on Virtualbox): LATENCY while using X. On the tty everything feels snappy but as soon as I use a graphic terminal, it feels choppy and typing feels sluggish. I'm not even using Unity because then it'd be just unusable..

Did you install the guest additions?

Yeah I did. Console-based (tty) video feels snappy and devoid of lag, but X.org feels a bit sluggish, still.

I've tried Windows XP etc on VBOX with the guest addition and it feels soo much snappier ;(

Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Post by dagw »

loudmax wrote: post #10
hardwaresofton wrote: post #4

While I can see this is an excellent strategy for the Windows platform, and will probably make developers on Windows more productive, I for one will never give up natively installed linux distributions for development. It may be childish, but I resent Windows for every anti-privacy, anti-competitive move they make, despite how much it is within their rights and fitting with their corporate goals. Trying to put linux…

On the other hand, we could be entering a phase where an open source developer might say "Why bother porting to Windows? Just target Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE."

This seems to already be happening with Docker. I can think of a couple of Open Source projects where there official Windows installer just installs Docker, a Docker container and a .bat file that starts up and connects to the docker container.

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Post by MattSteelblade »

carlmcqueen wrote: post #45
douche wrote: post #30

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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again

Soon to be a TV series.

I'll believe it when I see it

Re: Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora Are All Coming to the Windows Store

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Post by Doxin »

sevensor wrote: post #74
JoBrad wrote: post #49

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Wine does work in WSL, so you can install WSL on your Windows box, then use WINE to run a Windows app on the Linux instance on your Windows box.

Are people doing this to play Win9x-era games? I find Wine does a better job being compatible with old Win32 applications than Windows does.

Don't most win9x games also run on DOS? because in that case dosbox is a great solution. I might be misremembering DOS/9x compatibility though.
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