Is this a cheap ploy by Microsoft to get me to stop fighting that Windows 10 upgrade? If so, it worked!
Ubuntu on Windows
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#492By the way, for those who are curious: there already have been native (non-msys) Windows versions of Vim, ls etc. for years.
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#493This is totally reminiscent of the Apple integrating the NeXT code base (and inheriting BSD by way of it). If they can integrate Linux as a first-class citizen in Windows, I will totally be sold on Windows as an OS platform.
Can you imagine the day you'd be able to link a library built in Linux with a Windows native app?
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#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just out of curiosity, what does a Linux desktop offer that's not also natively offered in Mac and also highly polished? A GNU userland. A plethora of tiling window managers. A selection of clean terminals. Every single thing Debian's or Arch's repos offer which one must turn to brew for. And of course there's freedom too, which is nice. > Every year I try a switch to Linux desktop. This year I made it as far as tr…
Maybe HDMI is better supported that DisplayPort.
I've got monitors daisy chained using displayport on Debian, in mixed portrait and landscape modes. This is using an NVIDIA card and GNOME. It was plug-and-play.
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#495On the plus, Rails won't be such a pain to install on Windows now.
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#496Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you can also use forward slashes. I've used them in applications (Java apps, NodeJS apps, etc) and in the command line since at least Windows 7.
The forward slash (/) as a directory separator has always been acceptable to NT. One source says that it's been acceptable to DOS since DOS 2.0, although I don't have a lot of backing on that. The only place that / as a directory separator doesn't work is when interpreted by cmd, as it's then ambiguous with DOS-style switches. And even then, modern cmd tries to understand / properly when possible. Most of the time it…
IIRC (it's been a while), the native NT API does _not_ accept backslashes; win32 converts forward slashes to backslashes when passing along filenames to NT. The distinction doesn't matter very much, though, since very few people use the NT native API.
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#497What does this mean for PowerShell?
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#498Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, which ad campaign are you talking about? As for which OS (Win/Mac/nix) controls the majority share of developer desktops, I feel like it's always going to depend on what you're developing, so talking about the overall "biggest slice of the pie" for developers is less meaningful than talking about who has the biggest slice in the consumer space. For example, a backend web developer might look at this…
Probably a recent incident where Microsoft started showing full screen ads on the login screen is meant. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964
Odd, I hadn't heard of that until now, and I spend every day in a room with ~20 people all on various windows 10 machines.
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#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have problems understanding your point here. What was announced was not a new operating system but a translation layer built into Windows 10 that translates Linux system calls to their Windows counterparts. I also bet many people would disagree with your statement that W10 is unusable and worthless without this feature. The Windows kernel always existed and has evolved over the years: NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10.…
He's referencing Stallman's infamous stance on the nomenclature of Linux
I always wondered if Linus' name hadn't been part of the OS name (even though Linus supposedly wasn't the one who decided to call it Linux) whether Stallman would have gone on such a crusade. Probably not.
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#500It's time that people stopped using the term 'Windows' for this operating system. The Free Software Foundation created the bulk of the userspace, under terms that allow anyone to share, modify and fork the programs, and then Microsoft came along with the one last missing piece of the puzzle - the kernel, and completed the full operating system, which, to be frank, users find completely unusable and worthless without…
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as GNU/Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. GNU/Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another non-free component of a fully functioning Microsoft system made useful by the NT kernel, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSI…
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