Microsoft To Add Support for Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 Later This Year
'Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May 25. Microsoft officials made the announcement on Day 1 of its virtual Build 2021 developers conference. From a report: During his Day 1 keynote, CEO Satya Nadella basically acknowledged there will be another event "soon" about the next Windows. He said: ""And soon we will share one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade." He said he has been self-hosting it over the past several months and called it "the next generation of Windows." Microsoft released a preview of Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in April, 2021. This capability is meant to allow developers to run their preferred Linux tools, utilities and apps directly on Windows 10. With GUI app support, users can now run GUI apps for testing, development and daily use without having to set up a virtual machine.' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/05/25/1639238 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 26 May 2021 08:35:53 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May 25.'
Why? Doesn’t Windows have enough GUI apps of its own? Or are they simply not good enough any more?
On 26/05/21 10:43 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 08:35:53 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May 25.'
Why? Doesn’t Windows have enough GUI apps of its own? Or are they simply not good enough any more?
Embrace, extend, ... ?
On Wed, 26 May 2021 11:43:19 +1200, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
Embrace, extend, ... ?
Remember, they already tried “Extinguish”. And gave it a pretty good shot. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Criticism_by_Microsoft> <https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/> <https://www.computerworld.com/article/2480407/extra--london-stock-exchange--blame-microsoft-.html>
On Wed, 26 May 2021 08:35:53 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May 25.'
Here’s one possible reason for all the work going into this: as a way out from the ongoing trainwreck that native Windows development is becoming <https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/02/uwp_legacy_microsoft/>: "WinUI is the native UI platform for Windows 10 and Windows 11," said Microsoft program manager Ana Wishnoff. She explained that "WinUI 2 is the 2nd generation of the native UX stack in Windows. It's built for UWP apps. WinUI 3 is a new 3rd generation of the native UX stack in Windows. It consolidates the UX technologies previously built into Windows into a single decoupled framework that ships as part of the Windows App SDK, previously known as Project Reunion." As the docs explain, WinUI 2 has some limitations versus WinUI 3. ... Did that do your head in? Maybe it’s intentional ...
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