Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.
  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    he expects WSL to overtake native Ubuntu installations within months

    Yeah, because no one is installing Ubuntu anymore.

    • MolochAlter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It’s hilarious that even my mother (a somewhat technical person, used to use Ubuntu on a hand-me-down laptop of mine) explicitly asked me “what ever happened to Ubuntu? I stopped using it when they started using that weird new install system”

      One brief explanation later, we’re putting bazzite on the home pc because win 10 is going out of support.

  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I will never understand why it’s called the Windows subsystem for Linux instead of the other way around? Doesn’t Linux system for Windows make so much more sense?

    • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Because their earlier thingy that added partial posix compatibility was called ‘windows services for unix’, they just continued with backwards naming scheme.

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Is it because it’s dropping the implied “running,” as in “Windows Services for (running) UNIX (programs)” and “Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux (programs)”?

    • idealpink@feddit.nuEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I don’t like the name but I don’t think so.

      Linux system for Windows = adapted Linux to be able to run in Windows

      Windows subsystem = adapted Windows to be able to run regular linux

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A lot of work places need to keep their workstations on Windows for mdm and security compliance etc, or the IT staff does not have the bandwidth to add another OS for their developers and keep it compliant. Installing an app to run a Linux environment in userspace is easier than getting everything supported on bare metal workstations.

    • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It’s pretty damn brilliant. Install Docker CD in WSL and Docker CLI on Windows with Chocolatey and get Linux devcontainer VS Code workspaces locally.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I dont mean to kick anybody, but Ubuntu is the worst of all the big name distros imo. What is its purpose? It got its lunch ate by everything and even back in the dsy slapping Debian on anything I had running Ubuntu immediately made it better.

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I use Ubuntu for ease of use. Kubuntu is my flavor of choice. It just works for me so I don’t really have a reason to switch.

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I put my dad on Kubuntu because it’s the “normie distro” and I already use KDE on my arch boxes. I have not yet had to support it and it’s been a year 🤞🤞

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        After my previous foray into Linux, I really didn’t want to spend a lot of time fucking around with drivers trying to get all my components to work. Ubuntu and its derivatives were about the only things that had my network card and my audio card work out of the box, and while I might be willing to spend some time getting audio working, I am absolutely not going to use a second computer to get networking working on the first.

        • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          4 days ago

          I agree. Ubuntu gets dunked on a lot, but I am happy with it. If it works for you, run it.