dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMark my words: Windows will become a Linux distro that includes a good compatibility layer that people will take advantage of in other distros, and this will mark the year of the GNU + Linux desktopmessage-squaremessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareMark my words: Windows will become a Linux distro that includes a good compatibility layer that people will take advantage of in other distros, and this will mark the year of the GNU + Linux desktopdullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareEldritch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt’s already partially there with WSL. Still has a long way to go. But it isn’t completely rediculous.
minus-squareCris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIsn’t that kinda the opposite? I thought WSL was just the ability to just run linux cli stuff on a machine running windows
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoYea, it’s an API, just like POSIX was decades ago. (Though more advanced, it’s been decades after all). .
minus-squarebw42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWSL version 1 is an API translation. WSL 2 runs Linux in a vm.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoas far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.
It’s already partially there with WSL. Still has a long way to go. But it isn’t completely rediculous.
Isn’t that kinda the opposite? I thought WSL was just the ability to just run linux cli stuff on a machine running windows
Yea, it’s an API, just like POSIX was decades ago. (Though more advanced, it’s been decades after all). .
WSL version 1 is an API translation. WSL 2 runs Linux in a vm.
as far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.