Re:DOS Subsystem for Linux
by nobody9999 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:55AM
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>The dumb part is that they insist on including "Windows" in the name. What other subsytems would you have in Windows than Windows subsystems? The Windows part is implied. Otherwise it would not be a _sub_system, right? The only reason it is there is because some marketing idiot wanted more branding.
It's not dumb to them. Microsoft is not a tech company.
Microsoft is a marketing/sales company that happens to market and sell the software, services and hardware that the company makes.
It could be a subsystem for any one of the programs that run on Windows. For example, if it were virtualized in the browser, it could be called "Edge Subsystem for Linux". With the name WSL, the fact that it's baked directly into the OS is clear.
Re:DOS Subsystem for Linux
by happymellon on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:59AM
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> Edge Subsystem for Linux
Except that it isn't for Linux. So what you wrote implies that this is baked into an OS, but in fact it isn't.
It is extremely confusing.
So the Linux subsystem should be called... Linux subsystem. Searching on Google would lead to type "linux subsystem for windows" and it would not be hard for Google to direct you to the right Microsoft website.