Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
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Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
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#2TL;DR; It doesn't boot Linux (even 6.x)
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#3FWIW whilst it doesn't run Linux directly at the moment, it runs WSL2 just fine, and you can setup Windows OpenSSH server to launch WSL2's bash on connection, so you can use it for remote Linux work ok.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#4TL;DR; It doesn't boot Linux (even 6.x)
Though the article mentions this:
"Patrick Wildt, an OpenBSD maintainer replied to one of my tweets and told me he had OpenBSD 7.2 up and running on his, so I thought I would at least try that out."
And on twitter he mentions it's unmodified OpenBSD..."@bluerise told me OpenBSD would work just by flashing a USB pen drive. He was right..."
So it's likely possible with some experimentation.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#5TL;DR; It doesn't boot Linux (even 6.x)
Though the article mentions this: "Patrick Wildt, an OpenBSD maintainer replied to one of my tweets and told me he had OpenBSD 7.2 up and running on his, so I thought I would at least try that out." And on twitter he mentions it's unmodified OpenBSD... "@bluerise told me OpenBSD would work just by flashing a USB pen drive. He was right..." So it's likely possible with some experimentation.
I guess that there's something weird that trips the Linux kernel, but at least it's possible to boot third-party OSes.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#6I'm a bit biased here, but trying this kind of thing on a machine that is both completely new and designed to be a Windows development kit has somewhat predictable outcomes.
(I suspect it will eventually be a click-through process, but to flip the script I don't typically try to run Windows on my Raspberry Pis -- and have reasonable expectations of the outcomes if I do, even with WoR)
That said, I would _definitely_ buy one for myself if it was available in my country, to run WSL2 and do some ARM development (full disclosure: I'm an MS FTE who's primarily Linux and Mac-centric, _and_ writing at taoofmac.com for 20 years, so I try to have an even stance in these things).
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#7Unrealistic and unfair expectations here. Microsoft isn’t doing anything to stop you from booting other OSes on this device. OpenBSD devs did the work, so OpenBSD boots on it. Linux devs now need to do the same if they want to support this dev kit. Not Microsoft’s problem.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#8Unrealistic and unfair expectations here. Microsoft isn’t doing anything to stop you from booting other OSes on this device. OpenBSD devs did the work, so OpenBSD boots on it. Linux devs now need to do the same if they want to support this dev kit. Not Microsoft’s problem.
>OpenBSD devs did the work
It doesn't appear they did anything specific for this kit, nothing obvious in the changelog anyway. Perhaps just some combination of things they've done for other UEFI bootable Arm64 hardware. OpenBSD arm64 uses u-boot, so also maybe just some support that was already there.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#9Unrealistic and unfair expectations here. Microsoft isn’t doing anything to stop you from booting other OSes on this device. OpenBSD devs did the work, so OpenBSD boots on it. Linux devs now need to do the same if they want to support this dev kit. Not Microsoft’s problem.
The article seems like less a critique and more of an informational report of this person's experience.
Re: Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
#10Unrealistic and unfair expectations here. Microsoft isn’t doing anything to stop you from booting other OSes on this device. OpenBSD devs did the work, so OpenBSD boots on it. Linux devs now need to do the same if they want to support this dev kit. Not Microsoft’s problem.
The article seems like less a critique and more of an informational report of this person's experience.
>Whilst I enjoy this kind of tinkering, it was disappointing that a "Dev Kit", built for developers can neither boot Linux, nor enable a custom Linux Kernel for WSL2.
What's that I hear Hacker News and Reddit cry? "It's a Dev Kit for Windows, you moron!" That may be the case, but Microsoft "Loves Linux", and clearly has worked hard to make WSL2 available out of the box on these devices.
It’s not a scathing attack or anything, but it is in fact critical of Microsoft.