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Unfortunately another of their strength lies in the 3rd part: "extinguish". It's only a matter of time before their recent software of WSL, GitHub and Android on Windows becomes yet another walled garden.
So you're saying it's only a matter of time before Windows, which is 35 years old, might become a walled garden?
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They're already doing it with WSL specific features such as the DirectX driver. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
Am I misreading? It looks like they ported the DirectX runtime to Linux under GPL 2. >> "This is the real and full D3D12 API, no imitations, pretender or reimplementation here… this is the real deal. libd3d12.so is compiled from the same source code as d3d12.dll on Windows but for a Linux target. It offers the same level of functionality and performance (minus virtualization overhead). The only exception is Present()…
What do people use features like this for?
Was just about to ask the same question. I can't come up with a single Android app I'd like to run on desktop. Is it just an app development thing?
What do people use features like this for?
Was just about to ask the same question. I can't come up with a single Android app I'd like to run on desktop. Is it just an app development thing?
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Or maybe I'd even say "people don't like to use terrible app stores unless forced". Unfortunately, all of the commercial ones I have used are really terrible (gPlay, the Apple App Store, the MS Store), though at least on everything but iOS you aren't 'forced' to use them per se, just aggressively encouraged. It's kind of mind-boggling to me that none of them have managed to make an acceptable example, how hard can se…
I don't think Google Play or the Apple App Store are terrible, at least for end-users. They have the apps people want and function as advertised. The Microsoft Store struggled because initially it was limited to UWP apps. Developers could not easily ship their existing Windows software on it. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot by excluding the store from Windows' biggest selling point: it's extensive library of ex…
> Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Gaslighting 101
That is an objectively true statement.
What do people use features like this for?
In the article, they posted a screenshot where there's an Android game, a WIN32 app (word), a PWA app and a linux app in the same window. So I think Microsoft wants to position Windows 11 as the platform for all apps.
Microsoft should spend more time cleanup up the grotesquely inept and defective experience that is today's Windows.
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They're already doing it with WSL specific features such as the DirectX driver. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
Am I misreading? It looks like they ported the DirectX runtime to Linux under GPL 2. >> "This is the real and full D3D12 API, no imitations, pretender or reimplementation here… this is the real deal. libd3d12.so is compiled from the same source code as d3d12.dll on Windows but for a Linux target. It offers the same level of functionality and performance (minus virtualization overhead). The only exception is Present()…
1. Their kernel implementation is effectively just a paravirtualized proxy to the Windows DX API. So it won't be useful for bare metal users.
2. Only the kernel driver is open source (and presumably that is only thanks to the GPL). The user-mode library is a proprietary component shipped with Windows. I assume this is also DRMed to only work on top of Hyper-V/WSL2, just like many of their VSCode extensions deliberately block usage with unbranded builds (see also: AARD code[1], this isn't exactly new for them).
[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
What do people use features like this for?
Was just about to ask the same question. I can't come up with a single Android app I'd like to run on desktop. Is it just an app development thing?
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No it isn't. You can still install and even build packages using the manifest separately. It is just convenience, but doesn't prevent you from installing them yourself.
Prevent, no. However making your promoted paradigm of software installation rely on repos and package maintainers has lead to practices that make it unlikely that you will find any given piece of software in a form you can just drop onto your system and have it run. If you're really lucky there's a static version or an AppImage, if you're unlucky you're pulling down a docker container of someone's build environment a…