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Windows 10 Gets A New Linux: openSUSE (fossbytes.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
"Running Linux binaries natively on Windows... that sounds awesome indeed," writes Hannes Kuhnemund, the senior product manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise. He's written a blog post describing how to run openSUSE Leap 42.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 on Windows 10, according to Fossbytes, which reports that currently users have two options -- openSUSE Leap 42.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2. Currently it's Ubuntu that's enabled by default in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, although there's already a project on GitHub that also lets you install Arch Linux. "It's quite unfortunate that Microsoft enabled the wrong Linux (that's my personal opinion) by default within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)," writes Kuhnemund, "and it is time to change it to the real stuff.
Doing what I do now - developing for Linux in Visual Studio. And, to be honest, even though I develop for Linux, I personally prefer using Windows on the desktop both at work and at home (my little home server runs on Debian, but it is mostly used as a data graveyard and the only time I actually use it is when running midnight commander in a ssh session).
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
> A Linux system without a bunch of proprietary software is almost unusable
Bullshit.
> MP3 and MP4 playback come to mind
There are dozens of FOSS music and video players, capable of playing pretty much any common (and most uncommon) format. including mp3, mp4 and many others.
> Nvidia drivers.
The proprietary nvidia driver is currently much better than nouveau. for AMD cards, it's much harder to tell. radeon is better for some things, fglrx is better for others.
BTW, the nvidia driver and steam (plus some games - both native linux and with WINE) are the ONLY proprietary software I have installed on my machines, and i've been using linux as my "desktop" OS since the early 90s - switched from OS/2 to MCC Linux and never looked back.
In all that time, I've never had any need or use for any other proprietary software. Don't need it, don't want it, don't care at all about it.
and i couldn't care less about what other people choose or need to run on their computers - aside from the security risk they pose if they connect garbage software to the internet, it's none of my business.
> Especially CUDA
CUDA is almost completely irrelevant outside of a tiny niche of scientific computation, computer-science research, and other very parallelisable number-crunching jobs. I happen to do a lot of work in fields that use it, but I'm well aware that it's a very tiny niche.
> These sort of if idiot thoughts are why I moved to BSD from Linux.
yeah, because any/all of the *BSDs can run lots more proprietary software than Linux.
Your sort of idiot thoughts are why people think you're both a liar and a moron.
Slackware does sell its distribution on DVD/CD, which I think makes its a 'vendor'. SUSE may have been 'in the Linux business' since 1992, but only as a service provider and third party re-distributor of existing distributions (SLS and Slackware). They didn't actually sell a distribution under their own branding until 1994, and that was really just Slackware translated into German. So Hannes Kuehnemund is being a bit cheeky here!
I'm no fan of Oracle, but if they didn't require that the OS can at least be recognized by the support workers, they'd never get around to actually support anything. They're not Linux support, they're application support. And remember, they are actually supporting Linux where they've dropped support for Mac OS.
Oracle is getting pretty long in the tooth, and Microsoft is outstripping them in both performance, features AND cost, so there is some justification to call them shitty. But to call them that because they support the "wrong Linux" and not your pet project just illustrates the problem with Linux: it's a sect, not an OS.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Who in the demented F..K would want to run Linux INSIDE of Windows, especially Windows 10? Just run the Linux and put the Win10 in the garbage where it belongs. Why do people need to be told to turn ON their (seemingly single) braincell?