2y ago

Welcome to opposite land where Microsoft has a Linux install tutorial

www.gamingonlinux.com

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Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. Hold fast against the barbarians at the gates.
- Exactly, nothing changed about them.
  This week I learned that online version Microsoft Teams outright refuses to make calls of it runs on Firefox. They are doing the same exact shit they did two decades ago.
  
  So THIS is why teams doesn't work for me on Firefox anymore, Jesus. Welp, I can spoof my user string
  
  Huh, really? I'll have to try that out. I only use Teams on my work computer (Mac), but Linux at home. All of our interviews are over teams, so I wonder if that's an issue for our applicants.
  
  I think Google maps does something similar with Firefox, where it won't zoom in with the mouse wheel--only the '+' and '-' buttons work. It also seems to lag quite a bit on Firefox. On chrome it works just fine.
- Hold fast against the barbarians at the ~~gates~~ Gates.
  FTFY
- Nah. We're the barbarians with Romans at our gates.
- I've not seen a true example of this in over a decade. I feel like Microsoft becoming the biggest corporate contributor to open source has changed my outlook on Microsoft.
imagine microsoft promoting guides to use the terminal which was deemed outdated, slow and complicated legacy in the past.
Give it two or three more major teleases, then windows will be a DE runnining on some *nix-ish kernel. Microsoft is really learning the hard way.
- If they actually change the kernel to something new and modern, I might just find a little respect to give to them
  
  I will die laughing the day that Windows becomes a linux distro.
  
  All the rumors for 12/CoreOS are saying it's going to be in Rust.
made me remember this old classic:
http://www.mslinux.org/
- We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships.
  A bargain in 2003 dollars.
Here you go: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
I’ve said this before but I believe windows will merge Linux into it before too long. It’s starting with WSL. It’ll be hybrid OS eventually
- You can already run basically any Linux application, even graphical ones, on Windows through WSL. But at that point, why would you even keep putting up with Windows?
  
  All the power of Linux, with the annoyances of windows... A perfect world.
  
  Suppose you work maintaining both Windows and Linux infrastructure, having both in one OS is useful.
  Or if you want Windows for gaming, not having to reboot is nice.
  However, I've been Linux only for >10 years now, so I obviously don't see any value in WSL. I tried it a few times and it was neat, but ultimately not something I care about.
- I know some people like it, but I'll die on the hill that WSL sucks compared to the real thing.
  
  I want to like, because well I want to have an OS that just works on my work computer, but at least my experience has been less then optimal.
- 50% Windows, 50% Linux, 100% garbage!
  
  If that first 50% runs my applications flawlessly, I'm all for it. I do not want to dual boot and Linux doesn't meet my needs yet.
  50% Linux means developers are more likely to create Linux applications which is a step closer to 100% Linux
- Not going to happen. Money is good, but we are too addicted to freedom already.
  Even if it happened for whatever reason, that'd make most users fall back to "vanilla" versions of Linux.
truly we live in a bizarre world
- I feel that way every time I start vscode. A fast, high quality, open-source, cross-platform IDE - on Electron of all things - made by Microsoft? It's so weird.
  
  as the article points out, they did actually do some good things
  also, check out VSCodium. A cleaned up version of VSCode (I assume that name was inspired by Chromium, a cleaned up version of Google Chrome)
The most important installation method is missing, though. Installing Linux to the hard drive, replacing Windows.
- ?
  The instructions for a bare-metal install are there.
  
  But they specifically mention installing it on a USB stick. Yes, nothing serious you from applying the same instructions to a hard drive. But still.

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