Microsoft Linux = Microsoft + Ubuntu
If Microsoft bought Ubuntu and created a Linux distribution with Enterprise/AD integration, the Windows 10 GUI (same interface, same base apps, just as smooth to interact with in every way), and ported over their most popular applications to work beautifully with the distribution (Office, Outlook, Exchange, Visual Studio, Visio, SharePoint, Power BI, Azure integrations, DirectX, etc), would you use it?
Only if it was Unity Desktop based.
Unix or did you actually mean unity
They actually meant Unity. Noob.
No, because: 1. They would screw things up in the process. 2. Windows GUI is awful and too limited.
Presumably you could install any shell you wanted, just like with Linux today
Like point 1. Dislike point 2.
I could be convened... Depends on if they respect the current platform. What I do not want is Ubuntu:Windows distribution - a version of Ubuntu that is niesh to Microsoft. Embrace open standards and existing libraries, and don't over engineer ππΎ
We already have PowerShell running on Ubuntu. Now we need UWP.
But what about all the apps in the store...?
All four of them?
How different is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux) from what you are asking? It has all your user-space packages (shells, compilers, editors, and anything you can install from Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE reps) minus the X server. (One can separately install X server for windows). Of course, it runs on the Windows kernel but for most parts, itβs not visible to the applications. Oh, and by the way, you also get to SSH in/out of Windows with WSL (although, one can also use the SSH support in the newer Windows 10 releases).
Because it is built by people that think it is the same
Care to elaborate?
I'm at Microsoft and I'm using Ubuntu as my primary workstation. Works just great.
Windows 10 GUI... Even Linux desktop is better than that shit!!!
Linux doesn't have a GUI, genius. Depends hugely on the distro.
Doesn't depend on the distro. Depends on the desktop environment.
A Linux distro with lots of proprietary Microsoft tech and software but fully compatible with the Debian ecosystem 100%?
Sure, I'd use it as long as they did not nerf the kernel or userspace
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