Re:Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes ca...
by squarefoot on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:26AM
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I hope not. That would be like going back 40+ years: dumb terminals nobody can write software for and 100% dependency on centralized services. Just no, it would be bad in multiple ways, not just technically.
What I fear instead is Windows becoming in a few years a proprietary layer+GUI built on top of the Linux kernel+base environment (not unlike what Android Inc. and Apple did using respectively Linux and BSD), a move that could help MS reduce development costs but also take away from Linux most of its struggling desktop users and push soft houses to support it instead of the real thing.
What if they were already working on it and MS WSL is a subtle move in that direction?
What I fear instead is Windows becoming in a few years a proprietary layer+GUI built on top of the Linux kernel+base environment (not unlike what Android Inc. and Apple did using respectively Linux and BSD), a move that could help MS reduce development costs but also take away from Linux most of its struggling desktop users and push soft houses to support it instead of the real thing. What if they were already working on it and MS WSL is a subtle move in that direction?