BaronHK
1 point
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9 minutes ago
Chrome OS comes with a similar Linux container system that's advancing rapidly.

People don't want an operating system like Windows 10 that struggles under its own weight, gets spyware and ransomware often, and breaks down so much that Microsoft isn't even bothering to fix it because it's easier to include a "nuke everything" button in the control panel that you're going to need quite often. (Especially when Windows Update itself breaks down and the computer ends up in a loop trying to install the broken update, rebooting, clawing it back out, trying to install it again later, blah blah blah.)

It just "came with the computer". Often with as many as 62 pieces of useless crapware to cover the Windows Tax.

Microsoft uses Windows 10 to datamine people and put ads straight on their desktop. It's a gigantic nuisance. If you even try to install another web browser, Windows tries to set it back to theirs and if you keep fighting it long enough, it will hector you wit pop up ads for Edge.

And I can't see why I would ever use Windows 10 willingly when Linux doesn't get in my way and stop me from getting stuff done the way Windows does. When my husband needed a new laptop for school, we got a Chromebook, because Windows devices are abysmal. And shipping a fake Linux in it isn't going to substantively change any of that.

For compatibility with the legacy Windows operating system, there's Wine and Proton. Often, they can run software that hasn't even worked on Windows itself for years.

Microsoft is coasting on inertia (mostly from dirty and illegal behavior from the 1980s on) and their time is running out. If they had 0% market share today and tried introducing Windows 10, absolutely nobody would use it.

So, what do I think about WSL? It smacks of desperation. It really does. It's irrelevant. Microsoft doesn't make Windows better. It's re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Microsoft's irrelevance is further underscored by the fact that they gave up trying to maintain their own web engine and ship a bad copy of Chrome. (You may be a victim of software counterfeiting.)