Fragmentation is good! Old meme I posted on that site.

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    9 months ago

    Maybe it’s me but calling it Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW) would‘ve been more accurate in my opinion.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        “subsystem for posix” etc. might be accurate but they put a WORD before it that messes it up. Now it reads like Windows subsystem, For linux. Yeah there is a software which is windows subsystem for linux. Its called wine. (Maybe W in wine stands for windows subsystem for linux lol)

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      9 months ago

      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?

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        9 months ago

        Kindergarten teacher: “can anyone count to ten?”

        Microsoft raises hand: “1, 2, 3, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10”