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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by pmontra on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:36AM (#30174517)
They have thrown the VSCode and WSL candies to the world and most of us don't notice anymore that they keep behaving as they always did.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by 0xedd on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:15AM (#30176504)
You mean the metric hog that can only be turned off with a recompile? No, thanks.

Wsl, the barely usable product with breaking bugs, such as simple disk io, until wsl2 came to improve _some_ of the features? Nah.

The most detrimental change to IT, containers, still depends on hyper-v for networking in the latest version and can only build for the same kernel.

Cheap PR for garbage products to try and push PC monopoly.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by pmontra on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:32AM (#30189739)
They have been extremely successful with VSCode. I keep using emacs but nearly everybody I work with switched to VSCode. It even happened that a guy told me on a call "why doesn't your VSCode show [something]?" "Because emacs can show that but I don't care so I didn't install the package."

And yes, the people using Windows and deploying to Linux use WSL2 now instead of WSL. They used to run a Linux VM or dual boot. Another success for Microsoft. WSL2 can also run GUI applications. They'll end up controlling the Linux desktop.

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