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ixacto on April 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows...

Yes Microsoft does have an incentive to make a POSIX dev env available on their OS and also make the experience of using it not suck.

I'm curious as to why they didn't just purchase https://x410.dev/ and integrate that into WSLv2 as it has hidpi support already too. Also If Microsoft is able to get GPU compute working with native performance I would absolutely switch back from M1 mac.

comex on April 22, 2021 | [–]

One difference is that this is based on Wayland, whereas X410 is based on X11. The Linux desktop is currently undergoing a (very) slow transition from X11 to Wayland.

psd1 on April 25, 2021 | [–]

POSIX is a standard that Windows complies with natively and has done for decades - it's a requirement for DoD contracts IIRC.

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