• reinar@distress.digital
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    why not? it’s not like there is any competition.
    Microsoft is making more money off Linux with Azure than several red hats combined.

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      Yes, but people find this interesting because historically, Microsoft was actively trying to destroy Linux (look up Halloween documents) and even said that Linux is cancer.

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        A lot changed after Satya Nadella took the helm. The modern .NET platform is really quite nice, and MS does a lot of FOSS open source work.

        Obviously it’s good to be sceptical, they’re a large corporation and all they want is money, they’re not our friends. They’re just not as draconian as they were in the 90s and the 00s.

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    Windows: What is my purpose?

    User: You are a bootloader to install Linux.

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      “An expensive bootloader at that, but hey you already paid us when you bought your laptop thanks to our decades-old grip on the market, so we could not care less what you do next”

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    While I see an extensive amount of “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and do agree that this is the typical logic of Microsoft.

    It’s obvious this is to try and avoid getting hit with similar monopoly accusations that their competitors are receiving.

    “Look, Look!! We support other Operating Systems! We have a guide! We’re not a monopoly! See, See!!”

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    Microsoft must make 40% of their revenue off of Azure at this point. I would not be surprised if more than 50% of that is on Linux. Windows is probably down to 10% ( around the same as gaming ).

    https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/

    Sure there are people in the Windows division who want to kill Linux and some dev dev folks will still prefer Windows. At this point though, a huge chunk of Microsoft could not care less about Windows and may actually prefer Linux. Linux is certainly a better place for K8S and OCI stuff. All the GPT and Cognitive Services stuff is likely more Linux than not.

    Do people not know that Microsoft has their own Linux distro? I mean an installation guide is not exactly their biggest move in Linux?

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      More like:

      1 - embrace it in the cloud 2 - profit madly 3 - extend 4 - profit more

      It makes me chuckle that people think Microsoft actually wants to extinguish Linux. I mean, the Windows division sees it as a competitor to be vanquished I guess. Over at Azure though, it is the golden goose.

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    The performance speed between WSL, virtual machines, and bare metal Linux has become so close that few developers choose this method due to the overhead of needing to restart (reboot) your device any time you want to switch between the operating systems.

    And there’s the attempt at discouraging you from going bare-metal.

    I doubt that “few developers choose this” is true.

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    I love when people on the Internet say “X did Y quietly” to make it more suspenseful. This doesn’t look quiet to me…

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    I mean, why not do that, from their perspective. Linux has been around for a long time and Windows still maintains market share. They don’t feel threatened at this point, so might as well have the explanation of how to install Linux be a subtle ad for Windows.

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      It comes with bing search pre configured for you so you don’t have to look for the settings, we also hid them so you don’t accidentally switch to duckduckgo because we believe Linux users shall experience the full potential of our services even out abroad on another OS

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    I think Linux community is holding on hate and toxicity towards Microsoft and their software, you can even see it in comments to this post. Like lemmy is holding on hate towards Reddit (there is even Reddit community to share your anger). So if Microsoft somehow proves that they doesn’t deserve hate they are getting, Linux community will be shaved.

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      wat? it’s a corporation, the hate is 100% warranted.

      just because google’s eclipsed them to become the current worst thing ever, it doesnt mean MS isnt a blood sucking monster. if they were in the right position, they’d still be fucking us over.

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      Youre talking about a huge megacorporation like a person. Oh no poor billy is getting bullied by a few nerds who use a different operating system.