Post A6YRfalWSaGNOcjaqW by TechZerker@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #A6XntowwWXxxH8J2rQ by mike@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-23T17:01:35Z
       
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       Day 21 of the #100DaysToOffload 2021 Series:It's not often I'm excited for an announcement from Microsoft, but this is an exception. It's not great, but it's better than where I am right now.https://mikestone.me/windows-subsystem-for-linux-gui/
       
 (DIR) Post #A6Xpa7PCOcYIdDFubo by fedops@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-23T17:18:35Z
       
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       @mike still waiting for the enterprise version to support wsl2 at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6XpdDwUY3GZm4JD9s by mike@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-23T17:20:32Z
       
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       @fedops Fair point.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6YARxieciFLJLJ8z2 by tychosoft@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-23T21:14:21Z
       
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       @mike I had heard this starts a complete separate companion system distro vm to run the graphics stack. If so that seems kinda hokey and particularly wasteful.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6YDjk1cZmJtulLgaO by mike@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-23T21:51:07Z
       
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       @tychosoft Yea, it's not the greatest on system resources, but it's not a FULL VM like you'd get from VirtualBox or something like that. Definitely more overhead than native though.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6YRfalWSaGNOcjaqW by TechZerker@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-24T00:27:16Z
       
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       @mike Same boat, although I support a lot of windows desktops as well. However, I do have domain admin access, so today I bumped my system to Dev Channel Insider Ring to get this started. By the end of the day all I had the chance was to launch Emacs GUI, but it worked without any specials commands, so here’s hoping. I’ll try some other GUI apps next week and see how it goes...
       
 (DIR) Post #A6YxVXE7xVZk3hMWae by tychosoft@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-24T06:24:01Z
       
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       @mike Now I must wonder why they cant (wont) make a wsl instance that actually could start and manage arbitrary linux systemd/init.d deamon services easily, if they can do something far more complex like that.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6ZYWLDVnGBHP7K1lg by peterhebert@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-24T13:18:40Z
       
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       @mike part of me thinks (hopes) that all this work they're doing with WSL is in preparation for fully switching to a linux kernel in Windows. Maybe I'm delusional, but it would be sweet.
       
 (DIR) Post #A6ZyLopByCIQqzad2u by JodiFOSSter@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-24T18:08:12Z
       
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       @mike i switched over to all Linux at work about 2 years ago.  i can communicate with all the ancient office printers no longer compatible with windows.  even used my box to rescue some info from an old zip disc for a customer -- windurrs couldn't do it
       
 (DIR) Post #A6cH2vAqQUbMUML8SW by mike@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-25T20:47:03Z
       
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       @peterhebert I actually thought that Microsoft would switch to a Linux based system 20 years ago when Apple moved over to OSX. Apple went with a BSD, Microsoft and Apple compete, Linux seemed like the no brainer choice. 20 years later it still hasn't happened, but maybe one of these days?
       
 (DIR) Post #A6dnkQeSezKYG4wVZQ by StinkyTofu@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-26T14:27:59Z
       
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       @mike when i see this cant help but remember their "embrace,extend,extinguish" mantra
       
 (DIR) Post #A6eHSmULjIKfOeiKLw by mike@fosstodon.org
       2021-04-26T20:01:11Z
       
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       @StinkyTofu Yea, that's definitely a concern.