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Microsoft Works To Port Ubuntu To Windows ARM (neowin.net)
Billly Gates shares a report: It was this time last year that Microsoft announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store), along with other Linux distributions. If you check out the app in the Store now though, you'll find that it only works on x64 devices, meaning that you can't run it on any of the new Windows 10 on ARM PCs. That's all about to change though. In a session at Microsoft's Build 2018 developer conference today called Windows 10 on ARM for Developers, the company showed off Ubuntu running on an ARM PC, with the app coming from the Microsoft Store. It will finally support ARM64 PCs, although x86 devices are still out of luck.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish -- United States v. Microsoft Corp., 2001
Microsoft's long history makes them untrustworthy. I think we should be very skeptical of relying on any technology out of Redmond, and view it as a potential trap.
It seems obvious that MS would like every Linux computer to have a copy of Windows installed. And for people to run their favorite Linux application along side Office 365 or whatever. I can't really blame them, it's a reasonable business strategy. But once MS has power over a market they aren't likely to act in their customer's best interests. Ultimately us consumers need to be cautious of what bargains we strike.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I realize some of you have not yet switched to linux. I believe that the time is now, the microsoft and apple operating systems are simply unfit for most actual use cases due to spying, corporate shenannigans and general untrustworthyness.
Linux will not spy on you, has a low overhead, an extremely high uptime, better security, and tends to keep their applications small and useful.
The benefits stretch far into the horizon beyond the points I have brought up. It really is time to just get rid of the spyware and start using a machine properly to get work done. We all want to make money and having issues with updates, instability, lack of control, spying etc etc etc just keep costing more and more money while delivering fewer results.
If you are a business, a private institution or an individual the reasons to have windows are running out rapidly.
Linux is easy to install, has wide driver and printer support (at present wider support than microsoft, though not apple as apple is now based off the linux kernal), and by default assumes you are in control of your own machine which you purchased vs your machine simply being a physical dongle to connect to a corporations walled services.
If games are eliminated as well as specialty applications (which should have been web based and not installed applications to begin with) then what reason is left to run such an abusive thing upon your hardware?
I might actually consider a Windows shell that runs on Ubuntu, but an Ubuntu shell running on Windows, yeah, no thanks. The broken bits are still non-optional.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
What we need is a full support of Windows apps on Linux...and then throw Windows away.