DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 20, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC

lawik wrote: post #235

lalaland1125 wrote: post #213

It appears that Microsoft has now initiated the "Extend" phase of their classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish playbook. The key is that the proprietary Microsoft specific API added by this patch is only usable in a WSL environment as it relies on many pieces of proprietary closed source software that Microsoft is unwilling to open source. This patch does nothing but fragment the Linux ecosystem and encourage people to…

I find this a cynical take as far as EEE goes. But even with Microsofts mostly solid efforts into open source I find myself a bit skeptical as well. Most recently with the Live Share extension for VS Code. From skimming the licensing it is only to be used with the Visual Studio family of products. Which is an incredibly disappointing approach. I think this is simply about ML and GPU compute for WSL. And I think Micro…

Post by addHocker » Wed, May 20, 2020, 9:47 AM UTC

kd5bjo wrote: post #227

dgellow wrote: post #215

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Wait, is chocolate and peanut butter really a thing?! That sounds quite horrible to my non-US ears. Edit: yep, an online search seems to say that's an actual thing. I guess I'm part of the ten thousand today https://xkcd.com/1053/ . I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.

> I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter. At one point in history, US farmers were encouraged to grow peanuts as a rotation crop to improve soil quality. That led to a glut of peanuts in the market, so people tried to find uses for them. Peanut butter was invented+ as one of these uses, and has been a staple of American diets ever since. +Or promoted, I can’t remember

Post by ddalex » Wed, May 20, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC

mcv wrote: post #245

albertzeyer wrote: post #241

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That's exactly what Wine is.

It's exactly what Wine wants to be. Sadly that's not quite the same thing.

Post by rjeli » Wed, May 20, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #226

miffe wrote: post #29

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They are also adding an wayland server. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

> These changes are on the WSL’s team roadmap and you can expect to hear more about this work by holiday 2020. As if describing things in terms of northern hemisphere temperate seasons wasn’t bad enough (and still worse commonly showing how little you care about any place other than the USA and maybe Canada by using the name “fall”), now we have this: “holiday 2020”. I don’t know when this is talking about. I’d have…

Post by AsyncAwait » Wed, May 20, 2020, 10:04 AM UTC

dazzawazza wrote: post #274

lalaland1125 wrote: post #213

It appears that Microsoft has now initiated the "Extend" phase of their classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish playbook. The key is that the proprietary Microsoft specific API added by this patch is only usable in a WSL environment as it relies on many pieces of proprietary closed source software that Microsoft is unwilling to open source. This patch does nothing but fragment the Linux ecosystem and encourage people to…

As a FreeBSD user I find this kind of comment hilarious given I see Linux specific code littering upstream open source projects with no thought for other platforms on a regular basis. I occasionally see resistance to fixing these issues as well.