Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
by peakaboo on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:21PM
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I guess there are few of us, but I would absolutely never use that subsystem rather than a real Linux system.
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Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
by GekkePrutser on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:48PM
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Neither would I, personally. But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros.
These things may be required by the security department. So WSL is a nice carrot there for them. Management through Windows and Linux on top of it. I worked in endpoint management so I can see the appeal.
However personally I really like the way Linux is free of corporate influence. In fact I switched to FreeBSD for that reason as I feel that big IT is getting too involved with Linux.
Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
by wumpus on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:25PM
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> But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros.
Last time I set up a startup, our developers all worked in the same environment as our servers.
Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
by GekkePrutser on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:55AM
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But that's a startup, I was speaking more of enterprise (in which I work). We have much more rigid security rules, and we're also a much bigger target for bad actors.