HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs

Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by teilo on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:43PM (#15799469)

> As for the WSL I stopped using it. This is an honey trap to let people use Windows as their primary OS by just giving them the developer goodies they like. I may consider it again if you can use it to develop a full-fledged Windows application that can access the windowing system and can be redistributed.

A honey pot? I don't think that means what you think it means. If you are interested in developing full-fledged Windows applications, why in the world would you want to use WSL? You are not the kind of developer that WSL is designed for.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by frankohn on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:40PM (#15800061)

I develop full fledged Windows applications using GCC with MinGW. They could have managed to let people doing the same thing with WSL but you cannot.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by teilo on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:39PM (#15800654)

WSL is Linux. It is not Windows. Microsoft "managed" to make it possible to run Linux binaries on Windows, in a pseudo-virtual Linux environment. The distro you choose to run in WSL is not built by Microsoft.

If you want to develop to a Windows target, then configure your WSL environment to do cross-compiling. That's up to you. If you can cross-compile in Ubuntu, then you can cross-compile in WSL. Just don't expect WSL to be anything but Linux.

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