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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by bonton89 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:31PM (#39608166)
Is the Windows store popular now? Aside from Microsoft dog fooding I didn't get the impression it was very much used even after all these years.
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by rightbyte on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:56PM (#39608428)
Last time I checked the MS store it was mainly bikini wallpapers. Not kidding ...
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:29PM (#39609375)
Bikini wallpapers?! Oh my god, that's disgusting! Where?
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by rightbyte on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:19PM (#39610340)
They seem gone when I check now. I could swear, that when I installed WSL 2 years ago on my office computer, there was a ridiculous bikini wallpaper problem in the MS store. For some reason they push the store by forcing WSL installs via it ...
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by bitvoid on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:47PM (#39612433)
You can install WSL distros through the command line with:

  wsl --install -d <Distribution Name>
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by bikson on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:06PM (#39608534)
Good enough.
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by kyriakos on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:02PM (#39609678)
Not popular but usable now they allow any kind of application and not just "modern apps". Main benefit that applications update automatically but even though I do install apps via the store I don't ever remember finding apps through it. Maybe discoverability is just bad.
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Re:Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for... by LikesPwsh on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:15PM (#39610747)
It's integrated with winget, but that hasn't caught on much either.
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