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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by lukan on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:45AM (#40544535)
Tracking and ads integrated by default into the OS, who cares. But they did something with open source, they must have become nice!

And the linux subsystem, well, for me a textbook example of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

So sorry, they were never cool to me. I still use them, but if I must switch to win 11 soon, I might take that as an opportunity to finally cut loose my last dependencies with windows.

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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by throwup238 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:52PM (#40547726)
More than 60% of Azure is run on Linux [1] and the writing was already on the wall when the Linux subsystem was conceived so I don't think it's a good example of EEE.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/...

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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by nix0n on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:16PM (#40547887)
> I don't think it's a good example of EEE

Not yet, they're still on the "embrace" step.

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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by temac on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:26PM (#40547963)
With WSL they are absolutely at the "extend" step.
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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by ahartmetz on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:46AM (#40560263)
Notably, there are some passthrough APIs to extend the captive Linux with Windows features.
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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by nix0n on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:39AM (#40562092)
Ah, I didn't know about that. I stand corrected, WSL is at the "extend" stage.
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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by ahartmetz on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:25PM (#40565704)
It's somewhat hard to find, so lest anyone thinks I'm making it up, here are two things I have heard of - DirectX passthrough and (probably related) DirectML passthrough

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/directml/pytorc...

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Re:Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Rec... by strictnein on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:51PM (#40548138)
> Tracking and ads integrated by default into the OS, who cares. But they did something with open source, they must have become nice!

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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