Ubuntu on Windows
Ubuntu on Windows
Posted Mar 31, 2016 11:38 UTC (Thu) by dufkaf (guest, #10358)In reply to: Ubuntu on Windows by khim
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umm, you can install Xming http://www.straightrunning.com/xmingnotes/ (or Cygwin/X http://x.cygwin.com) and X apps should work
Posted Mar 31, 2016 13:01 UTC (Thu)
by jengelh (guest, #33263)
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Posted Mar 31, 2016 13:26 UTC (Thu)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Sure, but would it work good enough to make development of "native" Windows app superfluous? I seriously doubt it. Microsoft's goal is not to make it impossible to run Linux apps on Windows (heck, you can do that today with many virtual environments), but to make it unfeasible.
Posted Mar 31, 2016 21:37 UTC (Thu)
by clump (subscriber, #27801)
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Posted Apr 1, 2016 17:56 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Microsoft still makes lots of money on desktop and it does not look like there are any threat of them losing the desktop (except they would do something totally stupid). I'm not really sure if Azure even supports GUI Linux applications, but even if so these are so tiny that revenue from them does not matter - but they could threaten desktop. Thus they need to make sure server apps are well-supported and run well, while desktop apps don't work well. I doubt they would spend too much time crippling them, though: this would happen automatically as a consequence of doing nothing.
Posted Apr 1, 2016 19:51 UTC (Fri)
by clump (subscriber, #27801)
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The desktop is in retreat and Microsoft is betting heavily on the cloud, where they don't care what you're running so long as you're there.
Posted Apr 1, 2016 22:25 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Except they would do something totally stupid: supporting Linux GUI would be "totally stupid". MacOS was also "not a threat". Then Microsoft saved Apple - and Apple ditched Microsoft what it become possible to do. Microsoft wouldn't repeat the same mistake twice, would it?
It may be different market, but it still uses the same OSes: Windows and GNU/Linux. Right - as long as are in the cloud Microsoft does not care. But who in their right mind would use Mir or Wayland in the cloud? Yes, some people may try to use it - but why? To bring their apps to desktop, of course! In the end there are very small upside from supporting of Linux GUI and desktop environments (if any) - and very large downside. Just why would Microsoft do that?
Ubuntu on Windows
Ubuntu on Windows
Ubuntu on Windows
Microsoft's goal is not to make it impossible to run Linux apps on Windows (heck, you can do that today with many virtual environments), but to make it unfeasible.
Absolutely not. Microsoft's strategy is Azure, where revenue is based on consumption, not on preferred operating systems. Given that so much of "the cloud" is Linux/open source, Microsoft has a bit of an ecosystem issue.
Ubuntu on Windows
Ubuntu on Windows
Microsoft still makes lots of money on desktop and it does not look like there are any threat of them losing the desktop (except they would do something totally stupid).
No disagreement.Thus they need to make sure server apps are well-supported and run well, while desktop apps don't work well. I doubt they would spend too much time crippling them, though: this would happen automatically as a consequence of doing nothing.
This doesn't make sense. As you've said, Linux isn't a threat to Microsoft on the desktop. "Cloud" is a different market, a growing market, unlike the desktop market. Microsoft doesn't care at all whether you're using Linux or not in Azure because their revenue is based on consumption. Ubuntu on Windows
As you've said, Linux isn't a threat to Microsoft on the desktop.
"Cloud" is a different market, a growing market, unlike the desktop market.
The desktop is in retreat and Microsoft is betting heavily on the cloud, where they don't care what you're running so long as you're there.