Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.
MS so jealous that their biggest innovation in the last decade was ... to put Linux in Windows.
That and ads in the start menu.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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Context, please? Not trying to discredit, I'm just dumb
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which lets you basically run linux kernel along side the windows kernel which lets you do a lot of cool stuff like containers, linux apps, whole DEs, etc.
It was pretty cool for like 5 minutes until people realized that keeping windows around was kind of pointless and we should just be running pure linux lol.
It's still a good feature, but it just gives you a direct comparison of linux vs windows which tends to outshine windows.
it's one of those niche developer tools that ends up highlighting how fucking appalling windows is for developers .
Maybe it’s me but calling it Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW) would‘ve been more accurate in my opinion.
The naming of WSL sort of makes sense because it's actually build upon a kernel feature, which hass been mostly unused for more than a decade, called subsystems. There's the 'subsystem for Win32', which is the primary one that all Windows applications use, and then there were also the 'subsystem for POSIX' as well as the 'subsystem for 'OS/X'. WSL was simply a reboot of that technology.
The funny part is that this turned out to be too complex so WSL 2 ditched all that and simply uses a VM running the actual kernel in the background, so the name isn't even accurate anymore.
No, you're spot on. Microsoft is dogshit at naming things.
What's the difference between an Xbox one x and an Xbox series x? Where is windows 9? What the fuck is a Zune anyway?
Kindergarten teacher: "can anyone count to ten?"
Microsoft raises hand: "1, 2, 3, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10"
Which one of the blue As is arch?
i think the one next to debian
My distro didn't make the cut. That meme is just the tip of the iceberg...
Let me guess: Hannah Montana?
That one is my side OS 😆 . My main is Nitrux.
What's the logo that looks exactly like Arch but with a stylized X over it? I can't find any distro with that logo.
XeroLinux
I wish there was more variety.
You basically have BSD and Linux and in the Linux space {glibc/musl systemd/openrc/runit PKGBUILD,ebuild,deb,rpm} which seems like a lot but it’s the really niche stuff that’s fun to pull apart and play with.
What is the logo to the left of Tux and BSD?
I’d just like to interject for a moment…
What you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or, as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux
GNU
Horrible post
That's mostly fluff though. Like you show, the core is either Linux or bsd and gnu, and then you have a handful of families.
That's not fragmentation, that's freedom.
And compatibility is a big factor too. Because of gnu and posix basically, almost anything that works on one distro will work on another.
Imagine if each distro was completely locked from anything on another one. That would be fragmentation, and we wouldn't be talking about it, because it would be shit.
Variety is the spice of life.
the monopoly has been crumbling for years. high time for devs to develop with linux in mind.
That's very good. Less opportunities for a monopoly
Guys, we're sexualizing anime girls ironically, right? Right, guys? Guys?
I like how there are 4 blue A's and there all a different Distro
*they're
grammar police
I cringe every time when someone compares a single Windows version to a whole distribution, and some of them even have more versions than Windows.
Man of culture I see