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It had plenty of effect! WinXP/2k were the most logically organized Windows OS. It went rapidly downhill once Bill Gates left Microsoft.
So Bill Gates was the good guy?
Don't confuse competence and ethics.
Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
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Re: Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
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If only Satya Nadella would dogfood the OOTB experience of Windows 11 and not whatever his IT departments set up for him, he'd probably throw his laptop out the window and fire half the Windows managers.
I'd take OOTB windows than anything the IT departments set me up any day. If you ever worked at a big corp using Windows you know what I mean.
you cant download viruses or exfiltrate data if security tooling uses 100% of your CPU taps head
Re: Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
#73Finally decided that there are too many papercuts with WSL2. As new features and enhancements are introduced, new bugs appear at a similar rate. This is not just me, but colleagues in the team using a mixture of personal and corporate devices encounter a similar stream of bugs. just enough to frustrate as we use WSL2 for our own work and support users. I've yet to decide if to use VBox or go back to a Linux desktop (…
The decision to hide the virtual ethernet bridge on Windows 11 is a major WTF moment.
I burned a few hours trying to figure that one out, I need to disable/enable it each time I connect or disconnect to VPN.
Why Microsoft decided to hide that from the technical userbase of WSL2 I don't understand.
Re: Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
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~20 years ago BillG would occasionally send an unhappy internal email to execs/architects with a list of annoying or nonsensical things he ran into using Windows, Office, or whatever. I can't say that it had much effect! Other than all installers being terrible, the only one I can sort of remember is a rant about "My Documents" and how the word "My" made no sense.
I guess the purpose of "My Documents" and "Program Files" was to break compatibility with some old DOS programs. Because using space in filenames was not a very wise idea from Microsoft. (it broke even some Microsoft programs)
The “interesting” parsing behavior of CMD.EXE made the spaces extra fun.
Not to mention it was under “Documents and Settings” and it was pretty easy to hit the 255 character path limit with all that as a prefix.
Re: Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
#75Has MS made it so WSL doesn't grab at least 256GB of ssd/disk space?
I want to run WSL in 8-16GB.
Argh - they've made it WORSE - 1TB seems to be the minimum now.
Re: Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" Features for 2024
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I’m mostly on Mac but I do prefer WSL to the Mac terminal experience. Most things end up happening in Docker regardless, but things are just smoother in WSL. Not to mention that Windows has proper Window management and multiple display support.
I use Rectangle for window management and have 3 monitors. I’m really not sure what you mean by the multiple display support. The window management is easy to rectify with Rectangle or Spectacle.
Windows (and to a lesser extent Gnome) have much better Window handling. Shortcut keys for tiling, snap to grid, snap to fill, window-walking (I don’t actually know what this feature is called but it’s when you cycle through window snaps and the window will “walk” across each position of each display in order).
Meanwhile macOS has none of these things and struggles to remember my display arrangement between restarts.
Sure I can download Rectangle/Spectacle/Amethyst and solve some of these problems (while giving screen observing permission to a third party) but it’s far from ideal and not at all what I used to have on Windows.