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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by gapan on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:52PM (#44035293)
> 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.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by guappa on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:21AM (#44038355)
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.
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