Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by pathartl on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:59PM
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Superior hardware with terrible software. Also they straight up artificially limit their hardware so they don't cannibalize their sales, which is slightly understandable, but they do it in the dumbest ways. My SOs MacBook Air can only do one external monitor, even though it has the same specs as her work Pro. Oh and good luck actually getting that external display to work, I swear only like 50% of USB-C docks work on the platform.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by danieldk on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:13PM
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My SOs MacBook Air can only do one external monitor,
The MacBook Air M4 supports two external displays now (with the lid open):
https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-air/use-an-external-...
My SOs MacBook Air can only do one external monitor, even though it has the same specs as her work Pro.
The MacBook Pro with the non-Pro/Max chip (i.e. MacBook Pro M3) has the same limitations as the corresponding MacBook Air (i.e. MacBook Air M3).
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by gapan on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:52PM
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> Superior hardware with terrible software.
Funny how that was the other way around just a few years ago. Macs had inferior hardware, but they were supposed to have better software. At least that's what the Mac users claimed.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by guappa on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:21AM
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I fell for that, years ago. No the software wasn't superior either. I remember having to manually install codecs, which on linux had been a problem many many years before but had been solved already.