Microsoft is no longer about Windows, it's about being wherever you are, especially if you're a developer

It's been this way for like at least 6 years now. And it's quite comfy. WSL and Windows gives me everything I could want from a dev machine.

You should try tiling WMs

Windows 11 has one built in. it's not as flexible as i3 or the custom tool I use, but it's a heck of a lot easier to use.

Tried them and hated them. The built in tiling capabilities in Windows 11 are enough for me.

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Same reason they brought MSSQL to Linux.

>> Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market?

Azure integration

They can do that without buying canonical surely?

Because the same reason they have already tried with WSL... They are losing too many developers.

As everyone else you're living in a bubble. In your bubble people probably do hate Windows. Given HN origin in the Silicon Valley - where macOS and Linux are very popular - probably the majority of HN users also hate Windows.

But that doesn't say anything about the majority of the developers out there. From my experience Python and Ruby guys usually do use Linux and macOS, while .NET and Java devs run almost always Windows on their PCs and laptops.

The overwhelming majority of developers I interact with these days are on MacOS, and it's not even close. Probably a 80-20 MacOS to Windows ratio. I'm not in Silicon Valley, and I work with people from lots of different companies. Every company that offers the option for devs to have a Macbook, that seems to be what the "average" dev is choosing for a while now. This is obviously an anecdotal sample size but I'm looking at a group of about 30 companies over the past year ranging in size from < 15 employees to up to 500, and everything in between.

M1 has made a lot of people eager to jump too.

Ask a C#/.NET and he'll tell you 90% of the developers he knows use Windows laptops (the real Visual Studio works only under Windows). There are more than 10M professional .NET developers out there.

Same... a lot of it has to do with just the convenience of Mac shell being more native than the janky WSL implementation that does take time to startup and is noticeable, and not having to worry about a translation layer for volumes.

Microsoft actually bought a Gentoo based distro in container space - Flatcar Linux (which is a direct continuation of CoreOS that was bought and killed by RedHat)

Because Azure is the new OS, and for better or worse, UNIX was won the server room wars, with Linux being the most used variant nowadays.

However with containers running directly on top of hypervisors and serverless, it is only a matter of time until the actuall OS of the server room is irrelevant.

Until then, Linux and BSD (which they also support) are business relevant.

But I mean they dont have to have their own distro?

Money. Cant have Azure without a lot of Linux