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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, they want to be able to get people totally off Linux as a root OS.

By creating WSL, they now can say, "Oh, you like to develop for/on Linux? Well good news, Windows has Linux built in! Just come on over to Windows and you can use WSL and Linux on Azure for all your Linux needs!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And WSL is pretty good according to one of the other guys in my department that’s been using it.

The problem for Microsoft is that my entire user experience is better when I boot straight into Linux and use all their software (except vscode) in browser tabs.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I’ve heard it’s slow as molasses.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

I think it is partly that, but I think it is partly all the bright young tech kids coming in from uni want Linux not Windows. I think it's targeted at inside and outside.