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Do Docker people really think it’s a VM? Or has the meaning of “VM” shifted this past year?
I think the OP is probably referring to the fact that running Docker on Windows and macOS is accomplished by running a Linux VM which the Docker containers run in. Not that Docker containers are VMs.
What's the bet that MacOS will switch to the Linux kernel within the next five years?
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Linux desktop means little when people log into Google, Facebook et al.
Exactly. Linux won on technical merits, but we failed to educate people about the really important part about freedom.
Arguably. It's hard to say Linux won on technical merits of networking compared to FreeBSD or OpenBSD, or on storage compared to FreeBSD+ZFS, or say that generally when devs chose MacOS X.
I suggest Linux won for being: the most popular out of the things which cost $0.
BSD lost for not being popular, commercial Unix, Windows and MacOS lost for costing money.
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Exactly. Linux won on technical merits, but we failed to educate people about the really important part about freedom.
> Linux won on technical merits Arguably. It's hard to say Linux won on technical merits of networking compared to FreeBSD or OpenBSD, or on storage compared to FreeBSD+ZFS, or say that generally when devs chose MacOS X. I suggest Linux won for being: the most popular out of the things which cost $0. BSD lost for not being popular, commercial Unix, Windows and MacOS lost for costing money.
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With Microsoft, this part is almost inevitable. Same with Google/Microsoft and privacy...
10 years ago I would have thought it unthinkable a Windows machine would be sending data behind the scenes about me to a remote server. This privacy policy[1] is insane: > Together, diagnostics and feedback are how you and your Windows 10 device tell Microsoft what's really going on. As you use Windows, we collect diagnostic information, and to make sure we're listening to you, our customer, we've also built ways for…
I admire what Microsoft have done with WSL and now WSL2, it's really pretty cool. Satya has done an excellent job revitalizing Microsoft from the Ballmer days. However, WTF. Why has the "Microsoft" directory got a leading capital. I mean every.other.directory.in.linux.is.lower.case!!!!!! Look around folks! Every other vendor in that tree has their name lowercase, please respect the local customs!
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> it uses Hyper-V does this mean there will be issues using VirtualBox if WSL 2 is enabled?
As of VirtualBox 6.0, they should be able to coexist (because VirtualBox piggies onto Hyper-V when it’s enabled effectively).
I personally have to reboot when I need to use docker or virtualbox. Very annoying.
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There are things that don't work well though, classic example are laptops that dynamically switch between discrete and integrated graphics. You'll probably run everything on the dedicated GPU which hurts battery life. Still, my old desktop scanner that the manufacturer stopped publishing drives for during the Windows Vista era? Yeah Linux runs it like a boss. No looking up drivers or config parameters on the internet…
> classic example are laptops that dynamically switch between discrete and integrated graphics YMMV, but as far as I know that's more or less a solved problem by default (for X anyway) with DRI3. This particular complaint echoes folks (I was one) who booted Ubuntu desktop a decade ago and couldn't get wifi to work, and proceeded to complain about shoddy driver support (to present day, clearly), using only that single…
Generally, yes, it's pretty decent on first go and there's a nice default happy path.
Unfortunately in my own experience, that path isn't particularly wide, and there's a huge number of gaps.
Version compatibility is a major issue, imo. One driver or package works great on one kernel version is completely broken on the next.
A few hours ago I tried to install the official AMD drivers for Ubuntu. It's not until the install script has already gone and screwed up my system that I get told that they don't support 19.04.
I just don't have that issue on Windows as a rule. I'm not claiming Windows is perfect by any means, it's got it's own set of issues.
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I was like you when I read that. I remember when Ballmer called Linux cancer: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
I was hardwired with that memory.