> It is a general purpose server and container distribution.<p>My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499</a>) from the very same author got it wrong both times?<p>Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribution"?
Even within MS Azure Linux is at odds because it is not working in WSL out of the box. Folks had to port stuff to AZL away from ubuntu but without an easy path to use WSL to continue development. Sure you could adopt it but there is something fundamentally fragmented if such an adoption vector is missing in WSL. Now this… why do I need AZL desktop?
More on Azure Linux 4.0:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499</a> <i>Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux</i> (boxofcables.dev)<p>1 day ago | 143 comments
The year of the Linux desktop.<p>Meanwhile I’m stuck on macOS for work. Oh the irony.
I retired last year but I too had to use a Mac for a year. It was the first and last time I ever used a Mac. I hated it. So many quirky behaviors, window controls on the wrong side, just wow I had a whole list I could have articulated last year but thankfully it's a distant memory now.
We're getting there. But I doubt your average joe will ever use anything that may require even once to type something on a terminal.
The average Joe? My wife has used Linux since the mid-2000's. Her career was in Sales, far removed from anything technical. She loves Linux compared to Windows, her new laptop came with Windows and she bugged my for months to upgrade it to Linux, which I did recently. She doesn't use the terminal at all. Kubuntu, btw.
The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it
I am more excited about WinUI Reactor than anything else. the gap between Compose/React thinking and XAML thinking is enormous, and Reactor just bridges it. I am curious about interoperability - how would one include a Reactor-based component into existing WinUI 3 app? how would one include a XAML-based control from some other library into a (future) modern WinUI Reactor app?
Microsoft Linux... what an abomination. But each generation has to learn the lessons of the previous one, again and again. Have fun with the lock-in and e.e.e. Microsoft-fans!
someone once said - windows will die or will be killed by Microsoft - when they start pushing a windows flavored linux distro.<p>with all the arm chips coming into consumer hardware - seems we are about to be there.
Great work! I really hope it can be designed to be agent-friendly. The current CodeX/Claude code sandbox functionality is very limited; it would be wonderful to use this as a sandbox.
Bluecurve? Is this some type of delayed April Fools?
That’ll be deprecated in 6 months. Nope.