• kautau@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think they do in the enterprise hosting / software dev world, which is the reason for so much effort being poured into WSL, but for standard client applications or the “average user” switching to Linux I agree

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, they want to be able to get people totally off Linux as a root OS.

      By creating WSL, they now can say, "Oh, you like to develop for/on Linux? Well good news, Windows has Linux built in! Just come on over to Windows and you can use WSL and Linux on Azure for all your Linux needs!

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        6 months ago

        I think it is partly that, but I think it is partly all the bright young tech kids coming in from uni want Linux not Windows. I think it’s targeted at inside and outside.