The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    2 days ago

    WSL made windows tolerable in the time I had to use a windows machine for work.

    macOS is still the better choice for corp approved work, integrates decently with IT systems and is a “real” unix system underneath.

    Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.

      I would say it depends more on the commitment of the IT admins to support and manage a fleet of Linux workstations. There are Linux “Active Directory” servers, configuration provisioning tools, ways to centrally and automatically rollout updates, etc. It really depends on if the IT guys invest the same amount of effort to support them or not.

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        2000 people, 3k+ devices and one dude wants a Linux laptop.

        Not happening 😀

        But it did work in a smaller company of around 30 people, mostly because the IT guy was a Linux user too

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Easy fix, install proxmox and run corpo-os in that as well as a proper desktop os. Just need to max out the ram on the shitbox thet give you and now you can switch almost seemlessly

        • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Well I worked for a while at a large international corporation that maintained (and AFAIK is still continuing) a managed Linux system, which worked well enough. And there where a lot more people, especially the people that were the most productive, interested in it.

          Sure that might have just been a nice island inside the larger company, but the people there were the internal consultants, which often had to pull other projects out of the gutter.

          If you over your specialists ways to use the tools they need, you will improve the whole company.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      131·
      2 days ago

      IT just said no for WSL “ask your manager”

      My manager barely knows how to read his email

      and doesn’t understand why I want 3rd screen