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That would require Microsoft admitting they come in second.

Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things. And at developing things. And at literally everything.

It’s also usually lawyers that create these names. I worked on databases for IBM Cloud and they were all called “IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch” and what have you. Despite it being an offering of the database on IBM’s cloud.

Since Elasticsearch is a brand name, the “host” corporation corporation has to present it as a product “for” the brand name rather than as the brand name itself to avoid implying that they are acting AS Linux or Elasticsearch or whoever is the third party.

From where do you think comes the Balmer peak?

https://xkcd.com/323/

It actually makes sense. It's a subsystem in Windows (therefore a windows subsystem) that makes Linux work

This is a byproduct of one of the largest and more ignored differences between windows and linux. The fact that Linux let's you modify files while they are open whereas windows doesn't.

This means that you can update a linux system by just replacing the files with the new ones while it runs. On the other side, Windows can't modify its own files while it runs, so instead it has a second entire OS to update itself, and requires a reboot to unload all the files and boot from the updater without locking windows files.

Mac updates are less frequent but take longer. They also restart the machine. One difference though is that my mac never took it upon itself to start an update without asking my opinion.

Lack of proper package management is my assumption.

Very true for mainstream distros, but there's more: Linux updates in the background. No matter how long it takes(if you for example use Gentoo), there is zero downtime. And with kexec your system can be its own bootloader and can do insane stuff like starting new kernel without re-running POST, which is on servers is very important(because they have shitty BIOS that takes ages to boot).

I hear it takes a long time on Macs too!

thankfully I don't have this problem on my Gentoo

Everything that doesn't involve Microsoft is more stable.

That must have been an incredibly shitty virus scanner if it complains about Windows features.

The VPN client I'm using doesn't play properly with wsl, so I can often randomly not use internal services, because there's no route available. Unfortunately, that includes our k8s cluster, so I have to use a different kubectl outside of wsl to work with it. Awesome.

Why? What’s wrong with WSL?

You do have to reboot to use your new kernel after an update. But it's just a normal reboot, not the whole blocking installation process like in Windows.

WSL exists on a Windows system which means you're still subject to Microsoft's rather insane update practices.