Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit
by MrEldritch on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:03PM
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I doubt this will happen. For one thing, the dominant targets for Linux are servers and embedded systems - both of which are cases where resource overhead is pretty important. Running a Windows to run Linux inside of incurs a pretty substantial overhead, so I really can't see any case where developers would be willing (or even necessarily able) to spare the resources to install Windows on their formerly-Linux-only targets just to maintain the convenience of getting to develop for "Linux" on their Windows PCs.
And desktop apps developed for WSL will simply never be Linux-compatible out of the box at this rate, given that WSL does not contain any graphical or UI functions; MSFT has been pretty clear about this right from the start, and so I really can't see a scenario where people mistakenly believe just developing user-facing applications for WSL will make them "just work" on Linux, given that all the UI code is on the Windows side.
And desktop apps developed for WSL will simply never be Linux-compatible out of the box at this rate, given that WSL does not contain any graphical or UI functions; MSFT has been pretty clear about this right from the start, and so I really can't see a scenario where people mistakenly believe just developing user-facing applications for WSL will make them "just work" on Linux, given that all the UI code is on the Windows side.