Re:If you must run Windows 10
by jodrellblank on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:06AM
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> this episode of Embrace, extend and extinguish
Hyper-V is over ten years old. If it hasn't killed VirtualBox in that time, Microsoft offering a convenient Ubuntu VM is not going to be the death knell, trapping people who don't want to use Hyper-V in a nightmare situation of "having a removable Linux VM".
> The freedoms of Linux (such as not having a boot loader assume it's the only OS on the disk) will be forgotten
I've never noticed this as a complaint about developers using macOS for its Unix underpinnings, that they and Apple are not giving sufficient weight to the importance of a Linux bootloader.
Hyper-V is over ten years old. If it hasn't killed VirtualBox in that time, Microsoft offering a convenient Ubuntu VM is not going to be the death knell, trapping people who don't want to use Hyper-V in a nightmare situation of "having a removable Linux VM".
> The freedoms of Linux (such as not having a boot loader assume it's the only OS on the disk) will be forgotten
I've never noticed this as a complaint about developers using macOS for its Unix underpinnings, that they and Apple are not giving sufficient weight to the importance of a Linux bootloader.