Post 9os1CXVb0BOeXwUBcG by slightlyflightyone@vulpine.club
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 (DIR) Post #9os0xEvfnVNQa0O70a by slightlyflightyone@vulpine.club
       2019-11-12T00:00:25Z
       
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       Anybody else notice how Microsoft keeps digging its claws into Linux? I’m getting “embrace, extend, and extinguish” flashbacks from the early 2000’s.Anyway, time for Microsoft Linux to buy out Canonical and SUSE and break standards so everyone has to conform to their junk, ig.For context, Microsoft has now announced that Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Defender will be released on Linux. This announcement comes following Microsoft’s acquisition of free software hosting platform GitHub and their release of Microsoft’s PowerShell command line for Linux.Not to mention Microsoft’s inclusion of Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10, which is literally an installation of Canonicle’s Ubuntu Linux that runs on top of Windows.Feels a lot like they are trying to muscle into Linux and get control of future development to me.―Also, friendly reminder that IBM owns Red Hat Enterprise Linux and, by extension, Fedora now.Can’t wait for free software to lose its anarchist-friendly bent. /s
       
 (DIR) Post #9os0xFDOjbYTSygGdU by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
       2019-11-12T01:22:39.494018Z
       
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       @slightlyflightyone My hope is that one day, Windows will somehow itself become a Linux distribution.
       
 (DIR) Post #9os0zZQqXVsIkO52ae by Hex@radical.town
       2019-11-12T01:15:47Z
       
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       @slightlyflightyone Microsoft is giving up on the windows desktop. Seriously. Selling software is a stupid model. They're moving towards services. The money making model (from their perspective) is a subscription cloud desktop. They were never able to make a sever OS that could keep any uptime, so they're just going to drop Windows as an OS all together.
       
 (DIR) Post #9os1CXVb0BOeXwUBcG by slightlyflightyone@vulpine.club
       2019-11-12T01:23:40Z
       
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       @sean My hope is that Microsoft will die and its CEOs (past and present) executed in the public square.We cann all have our dreams. c:
       
 (DIR) Post #9os1CXfsNxcV3pIOdk by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
       2019-11-12T01:25:25.054645Z
       
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       @slightlyflightyone Yeah, I hear you. I just think it would be poetic if the entire company were somehow transformed by the thing it's trying to co-opt, and it backfires so hard that they can't untangle themselves from it.And then have to fund open source development left and right. 😛
       
 (DIR) Post #9os1QHxjbC9GNwCglM by kinsey@cybre.space
       2019-11-12T01:27:19Z
       
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       @slightlyflightyone i've seen the "check out our new cross-platform PowerShell!" message a few times when i open PowerShell and every time i just think "why would i voluntarily use this on a platform with actually good shell scripting"like, literally the only reason i use PowerShell on Windows is because the alternative is strange incantations in a long-dead language using incomprehensible runes (cmd.exe batch scripts)
       
 (DIR) Post #9os2vLrBGnL5OVVvcm by kezzbracey@mastodon.design
       2019-11-12T01:44:22Z
       
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       @sean @slightlyflightyone It's not completely impossible. I've begrudgingly accepted they're making the best open source code editor for web dev right now in the form of VSCode.Of course, the binary released is proprietary with telemetry, sigh.... But I use VSCodium, compiled from source without telemetry. But still, it's a far cry from Frontpage back in the day.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ovvG3Ol4SXfE7Q61A by Undertow@mas.to
       2019-11-13T22:36:28Z
       
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       @slightlyflightyone Not cool !