Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.
  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    I will never understand why it’s called the Windows subsystem for Linux instead of the other way around? Doesn’t Linux system for Windows make so much more sense?

    • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Because their earlier thingy that added partial posix compatibility was called ‘windows services for unix’, they just continued with backwards naming scheme.

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Is it because it’s dropping the implied “running,” as in “Windows Services for (running) UNIX (programs)” and “Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux (programs)”?

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    A lot of work places need to keep their workstations on Windows for mdm and security compliance etc, or the IT staff does not have the bandwidth to add another OS for their developers and keep it compliant. Installing an app to run a Linux environment in userspace is easier than getting everything supported on bare metal workstations.

    • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      It’s pretty damn brilliant. Install Docker CD in WSL and Docker CLI on Windows with Chocolatey and get Linux devcontainer VS Code workspaces locally.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?

    How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?

    Sorry, but I believe the blog post author’s statements regarding “statistics” are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.

    The “AI” part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
    The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:

    AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.

    Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew…

    As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

    # Fun Is Social

    My first real experience of OSS was with a successful, established project whose culture I could observe. It was KDE, the community behind a desktop environment for Linux…

    Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships…

    Source

    • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

      Well money would be a huge motivator on its own. Unless his idea of motivation is to bring out the whips…