someone once said - windows will die or will be killed by Microsoft - when they start pushing a windows flavored linux distro.
with all the arm chips coming into consumer hardware - seems we are about to be there.
Azure Linux Desktop
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#12The year of the Linux desktop. Meanwhile I’m stuck on macOS for work. Oh the irony.
We're getting there. But I doubt your average joe will ever use anything that may require even once to type something on a terminal.
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#13Even within MS Azure Linux is at odds because it is not working in WSL out of the box. Folks had to port stuff to AZL away from ubuntu but without an easy path to use WSL to continue development. Sure you could adopt it but there is something fundamentally fragmented if such an adoption vector is missing in WSL. Now this… why do I need AZL desktop?
my theory is Microsoft's infrastructure does not yield as well do the best AI tools right now, which is all bash based; so they're struggling to 'catch up' so they can achieve at the least minimum gains.
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#14Microsoft Linux... what an abomination. But each generation has to learn the lessons of the previous one, again and again. Have fun with the lock-in and e.e.e. Microsoft-fans!
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#15Bluecurve? Is this some type of delayed April Fools?
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#16> It is a general purpose server and container distribution.
My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499) from the very same author got it wrong both times?
Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribution"?
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#17Microsoft Linux... what an abomination. But each generation has to learn the lessons of the previous one, again and again. Have fun with the lock-in and e.e.e. Microsoft-fans!
The return of Xenix :)
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#18> It is a general purpose server and container distribution. My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499 ) from the very same author got it wrong both times? Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribut…
Both of those things are true in different ways.
Purpose built for azure probably means integration with azure meta data APIs and kernel specific tweaks for the hardware.
It could also be general purpose for what you can run on it.
Basically it's a curated distro. Not complicated or anything different from what AWS and GCE are doing.
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#19The year of the Linux desktop. Meanwhile I’m stuck on macOS for work. Oh the irony.
We're getting there. But I doubt your average joe will ever use anything that may require even once to type something on a terminal.
The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're getting there. But I doubt your average joe will ever use anything that may require even once to type something on a terminal.
The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it
Imagine if different sectors worked like that. To go to a restaurant, each customer brings their own private chef to let loose in the kitchen.
Wouldn't it make more sense for OS makers to "tell Claude" to make a user friendly GUI for their terminal commands?