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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by codedokode on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:30PM (#43649584)
In reality though Microsoft just added a WSL; not bad: Linux code can run on Windows now.

Also, if you want Windows to die you need to work with OEMs: I assume that most users simply use whatever OS is pre-installed.

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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by johnisgood on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:53PM (#43649723)
I agree.
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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by pjmlp on Monday April 14, 2025 @06:13AM (#43679740)
As gray dog around the prairie, had Microsoft actually been serious with POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000, instead of some marketing material and low level effort, GNU/Linux adoption would never taken off, at least not at a level that would have mattered.

With OS X on one side, and POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000 side, everyone would be doing their UNIX like workflows without thinking once to try out GNU/Linux.

At my university we only cared about Linux on its early days, Slackware 2.0 days, because naturally we couldn't have DG/UX at home, and that POSIX support was really unusable beyond toy examples.

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