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So Linux is an end state utopia of software? Never thought Ballmer was based
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Even 10 years ago, this would've been unthinkable. Never would I have ever thought Microsoft would oublish a guide on instanjing Linux.
It's not that long ago when Steve Ballmer said "Linux is cancer".
Oh wait, that was 22 years ago.
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It makes sense. Over half of the Azure VMs are running Linux so there clearly is a demand for it despite the last 30 years of MS actions.
OS is really not making them money anymore. One thing that helped apple make a comeback was intel hosts and encouraging dualbooting and software to run your windows on mac.
Windows OS is one of the biggest misses in the company's history. The money lost on Zune pales in comparison to the missed opportunities of making NT the go-to dev platform.
People like Mac OS better. The most popular user OS in the world is Android. Cloud is Linux. Microsoft knows they have to play nice because they are so far behind there's no point in competing how they used to.
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Great, does it still stomp over the MBR when you try to dual boot? Fix that first.
There are many fans of linux at microsoft. The subsystem is a testament to their push towards more interoperability. Not perfect but a start.
It wasn't published September 29th, it was updated then.
It was published back in March. All these pages are on github where this can be verified: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/linux/commits/main/docs/install.md
The performance speed between WSL, virtual machines, and bare metal Linux has become so close that few developers choose this method due to the overhead of needing to restart (reboot) your device any time you want to switch between the operating systems.
And there's the attempt at discouraging you from going bare-metal.
I doubt that "few developers choose this" is true.
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Actually, the guide doesn't mention how to dual boot, it's how to install Linux bare metal as the only os.
Otherwise they wouldn't have removed the possibility to easily boot Linux from the windows boot manager instead of grub
I've heard talks that after each Windows update, you have to restore Grub config.
Not the case with me. Had dual boot for some time and never had to fix it... 🤷
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Pretty sure this means Linus won.