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Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Softpedia article: Microsoft has finally acknowledged the potential that the open-source world in general, and Linux in particular, boasts, so the company is exploring its options to expand in this area with every occasion. Most recently, an episode posted on Channel 9 and entitled "Improvements to Bash on Windows and the Windows Console" with senior program manager Rich Turner calls for Linux developers to give up on their platforms for Windows 10. "Fire up a Windows 10 Insiders' build instance and run your code, run your tools, host your website on Apache, access your MySQL database from your Java code," he explained. Turner went on to point out that the Windows subsystem for Linux is there to provide developers with all the necessary tools to code just like they'd do it on Linux, all without losing the advantages of Windows 10. "Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it's in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL, and importantly file bugs on us. It really makes our life a lot easier and helps us build a product that we can all use and be far more productive with, he continued. Editor's note: The original title from Softpedia was edited because it was misleading. A Microsoft employee doesn't represent the entire company (at least in this instant he wasn't speaking for the company), and at no point has he asked "all Linux developers" to "give up" on Linux.
It's never been the ability to run Linux programs on Windows that's kept me from moving to Windows 10, I can build just about any program designed for Linux to make use of Windows...perhaps with a bit of code fiddling depending on how ingrained Linux support was made. What keeps me from swapping to Windows 10 is the fucking back doors that MS wants to run by default....and the fact that Windows 7 still runs quite well inside the sandbox.
Windows 10 is not bad in that regard. My main beef with it is the whole automatic updates saga, which when you have to rely on a metered connection becomes extremely painful. Kind of the same deal with the constant >1GB console/games updates but I guess I just have to become more connected :(
Didn't read the TFA, but from the summary, it seems to me that the whole point this plea is to recruit highly skilled testers who'll work for free (as in beer)
My desktop being my computer, right? I am running Mint right now with xfce on my laptop, 2 monitors, one with a bunch of terminal sessions, another with a browser (the one I am posting this from).
I don't need anything to overtake anything for me to have my desktop based on a GNU/Linux distro, I am not being 'pedantic', I seriously don't understand people who are talking about it this way. My year of Linux on a desktop happened back in 2001.
You can't handle the truth.