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    Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.

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    [–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    MS so jealous that their biggest innovation in the last decade was ... to put Linux in Windows.

    That and ads in the start menu.

    [–] Cicraft@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Context, please? Not trying to discredit, I'm just dumb

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which lets you basically run linux kernel along side the windows kernel which lets you do a lot of cool stuff like containers, linux apps, whole DEs, etc.

    It was pretty cool for like 5 minutes until people realized that keeping windows around was kind of pointless and we should just be running pure linux lol.

    It's still a good feature, but it just gives you a direct comparison of linux vs windows which tends to outshine windows.

    [–] abcd@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe it’s me but calling it Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW) wouldβ€˜ve been more accurate in my opinion.

    [–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    The naming of WSL sort of makes sense because it's actually build upon a kernel feature, which hass been mostly unused for more than a decade, called subsystems. There's the 'subsystem for Win32', which is the primary one that all Windows applications use, and then there were also the 'subsystem for POSIX' as well as the 'subsystem for 'OS/X'. WSL was simply a reboot of that technology.

    The funny part is that this turned out to be too complex so WSL 2 ditched all that and simply uses a VM running the actual kernel in the background, so the name isn't even accurate anymore.

    "subsystem for posix" etc. might be accurate but they put a WORD before it that messes it up. Now it reads like Windows subsystem, For linux. Yeah there is a software which is windows subsystem for linux. Its called wine. (Maybe W in wine stands for windows subsystem for linux lol)

    [–] tourist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, you're spot on. Microsoft is dogshit at naming things.

    What's the difference between an Xbox one x and an Xbox series x? Where is windows 9? What the fuck is a Zune anyway?

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Kindergarten teacher: "can anyone count to ten?"

    Microsoft raises hand: "1, 2, 3, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10"

    [–] SeekPie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

    They had the perfect chance to name the console after xbox one the xbox two

    [–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

    What was weird was one of my friends who is "baffled by my choice of Linux" let me know about this subsystem and said "hey, look! There's no reason to use Linux again!"

    [–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    it's one of those niche developer tools that ends up highlighting how fucking appalling windows is for developers .

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Why would it be pointless to keep Windows when it is capable of running (al be it slowly) Linux software?

    It is like saying Linux is pointless because of Wine.

    It was pointless to keep windows at all. Pure linux is much cooler and running it inside windows was pointless. Unlike wine which runs windows programs inside linux which is big deal

    [–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago

    Plus it's slow as shit typically

    [–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    They're talking about Windows Subsystem for Linux. Basically reverse WINE.

    [–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Don't forget about AI

    [–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 65 points 2 years ago
    [–] ordellrb@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I like how there are 4 blue A's and there all a different Distro

    [–] hasecilu@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

    For sure there are more!

    [–] wiikifox@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

    *they're

    grammar police

    [–] bouh@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

    That's mostly fluff though. Like you show, the core is either Linux or bsd and gnu, and then you have a handful of families.

    That's not fragmentation, that's freedom.

    And compatibility is a big factor too. Because of gnu and posix basically, almost anything that works on one distro will work on another.

    Imagine if each distro was completely locked from anything on another one. That would be fragmentation, and we wouldn't be talking about it, because it would be shit.

    [–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    Which one of the blue As is arch?

    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

    i think the one next to debian

    [–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    My distro didn't make the cut. That meme is just the tip of the iceberg...

    [–] dukk@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Let me guess: Hannah Montana?

    [–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

    That one is my side OS πŸ˜† . My main is Nitrux.

    [–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

    the monopoly has been crumbling for years. high time for devs to develop with linux in mind.

    [–] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    What is the logo to the left of Tux and BSD?

    Edit: I think it's GNU?

    [–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    I’d just like to interject for a moment…

    [–] Penta@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    What you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or, as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux

    [–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    What's the logo that looks exactly like Arch but with a stylized X over it? I can't find any distro with that logo.

    [–] hasecilu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

    Guys, we're sexualizing anime girls ironically, right? Right, guys? Guys?

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

    I cringe every time when someone compares a single Windows version to a whole distribution, and some of them even have more versions than Windows.

    [–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

    Horrible post

    [–] Falcon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I wish there was more variety.

    You basically have BSD and Linux and in the Linux space {glibc/musl systemd/openrc/runit PKGBUILD,ebuild,deb,rpm} which seems like a lot but it’s the really niche stuff that’s fun to pull apart and play with.

    [–] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 4 points 2 years ago

    That's very good. Less opportunities for a monopoly

    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

    Variety is the spice of life.

    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    Man of culture I see