Microsoft is upgrading its WSL2 kernel against Linux 6.18 LTS
Posted by somerandomxander@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 18 comments
Posted by somerandomxander@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 18 comments
protoanarchist@reddit
Just like... run Linux already.
Windows users look like Mr. Bean driving his car from the roof.
Alan_Reddit_M@reddit
Kernel anti cheat is a PRISON
Retzerrt@reddit
No, kernel anti cheat shouldn't exist.
BinkReddit@reddit
Some companies are still backwards and force their employees to run Windows; this is the next best thing.
moose_drip@reddit
Correct the execs I work for are Microslop sluts and that’s all they know. However we have Linux systems we have to support and using WSL to support Linux servers makes my job just a little easier.
NoTime_SwordIsEnough@reddit
I literally went back to Winslop at home because of the advent of WSL. Just makes daily tasks infinitely easier.
jaymz168@reddit
I personally have quite a bit of audio hardware and software that only work with Windows or MacOS. I've tried many many times to migrate to daily driving Linux and I always end up back on Windows because of the headache associated with these things.
But it's nice to have WSL for maintaining a separate dev environment in vscode and running software like ngOpenScope.
TrashConvo@reddit
Wonder if they’ll ever do a “next-gen” windows that just runs linux under the hood. They could have a consumer platform with a windows desktop environment and then a core OS that runs in Azure. Then keep all their legacy customers on old versions of windows
DeconFrost24@reddit
I see this mentioned all the time; why would they do this, what does this buy them or Windows users? Windows has issues but the kernel really isn't one of them. Next gen Windows needs to go back to actual innovation, taking risks, and giving two fucks about what users actually want. Microsoft is a service and marketing company now that happens to make an operating system. That's the problem.
NoTime_SwordIsEnough@reddit
Yeah, the NT Kernel is actually well-written and decently modular from what I've heard. It's just the user-facing layers built on top of it that are ass.
I also saw another commenter say "Microsoft could implement their own version of WINE to slowly migrate users over". Like, wut...? WINE is a re-implementation of Windows API's (and some kernely stuff, stuff like RPC / handles, via wineserver), hooked up to some plumbing to redirect it to a Linuxey way of doing stuff. What's the point of maintaining the same implementation twice?
BeautifulMundane4786@reddit
My guess is Microsoft probably thinks that they can force the user to not use a separate os by making the separate os part of windows. That way the user will always be using windows no matter what.
AndreaCicca@reddit
Likely no because there is no reason to do it
huskypuppers@reddit
Wouldn't this absolutely destroy backwards compatiblity? Unless they end up doing something equivalent to Wine.
TrashConvo@reddit
Absolutely would. They’d have to maintain a legacy version of windows classic for win32 compatibility and migrate people over. It’d be expensive
BeautifulMundane4786@reddit
“But end consumers likely don’t need backwards compatibility.”
Oh that’s right old gaming CPU’s and gpu’s don’t exist anymore when it comes to playing video games. 🤦♂️🙄
TrashConvo@reddit
From my experience, linux has better backwards compatibility for older windows games and older hardware
Cats7204@reddit
Wine developers achieved what they achieved by being completely blind to any source code leaks and relying only on limited reverse engineering, and careful treading of legal minefields.
Imagine what it could achieve if Microsoft backed it like Valve is backing it and developing Proton. If Microsoft developed a LSW or something that's just Wine but built with the full knowledge and documentation of the OS inner workings.
I doubt the NT kernel will ever go away, but a LSW would be a massive win in business terms for Microsoft (Expanding their support and reach even beyond their own OS), and a massive win for Linux users (Even better compatibility for Windows programs and apps).
I wouldn't use it, since I don't trust anything coming from MS, but I'm sure it'd bring a ton of users to Linux who just want to escape the slop, get a bit more performance from their hardware, and are already accustomed to being spied on by Microsoft.
DeathToOrcs2@reddit
LSW