Is there anyone else that thinks "weasel" upon seeing WSL?
Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app
Microsoft has made its Store the home of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). "The Store version of WSL is now the default version of WSL" wrote Craig Loewen, a program manager for the Windows Developer Platform, in a Tuesday post. "The in-Windows version of WSL will still receive critical bug fixes, but the Store version of …
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 11:50 GMT oiseau
She's 12 and has been a Slackware user her entire life.
Good to see she has accrued three very important things at an early age:
- common sense.
- a good education.
- sense of independence
Maybe it would be a good thing for her parents to go and have a word or two with the dumb school principal.
Kudos to her.
O.
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Monday 28th November 2022 07:59 GMT BillyMunny
Good for your granddaughter; she seems sharp and witty. Doubly good for her that she can use Slackware. (grin) Someday she's going to find things like Void and Nix, and things are going to pop as though it is Guy Fawkes day.
Some of my Linux bro's don't much like WSL. However, I see it as putting Linux before a vast audience of people who will find ways to solve problems with it - to make it work for them. Whether they adopt Linux as their daily driver matters far less than using it to do specific things they can't do as well in pure Windows.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 07:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Are you forced to have a M$ account to access Microsoft Store or is there a way around this?
I wanted to get some critical software for my HP Laptop which only appears to be availble on Windows Store.
This is a bit of a bummer as I don't want to have to be forced to have to use a M$ account to get hold of it.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 09:38 GMT loops
Re: So what's the improvement in the store version?
None. They keep pushing everything to the Windows store because Windows Package Manager can access the store and they're pushing the Package Manager.
There's a major problem with this: any network administrator worth their salt will block the crappy Windows Store across their network.
In their wisdom they recently pushed Quick Assist to the Windows Store and then obsoleted the old (freely available) app. Microsoft support are now having to use Teams or Teamviewer, because nobody in enterprise can access the Quick Assist app any more.
And these people are supposed to be the intelligent ones.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 11:15 GMT Pascal Monett
They're not pushing enough to the Store.
I would like Windows Update to only make security updates.
The rest of their bullshit I don't need, and would prefer it to be housed in the Store so as to not pollute my PC with stuff I don't want, don't need and couldn't care less for. Eh, Cortana ?
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 14:03 GMT Gerlad Dreisewerd
Re: So what's the improvement in the store version?
Oh they're quite intelligently pushing all their software to the Microsoft store where they hope to charge for previously free software.
Meanwhile intelligent computer users are learning Linux. M$ screwed up the drivers on my old HP 3830. The printer & scanner worked fine on Linux butI needed a printer on the M$ machine.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 13:45 GMT Roland6
Re: So what's the improvement in the store version?
Negative improvement: It is harder to create a standard build.
With MSI's et al, it was relatively simple to build a set of laptops/systems with all applications available to current and future users of that computer.
With Store app's, I've found they tend to only install correctly for the current logged on Windows user.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 18:26 GMT Roland6
Re: So what's the improvement in the store version?
There are two things here: firstly where the app is installed and secondly whether all users have correctly configured permissions to use that app.
For example I can install a version of MS Office (standalone or 365) with company defaults and it is available to all users with no further support effort. Similarly with the Teams msi. With 365 and Teams a user need only to enter their MS login and they are free to create an instance.and personalise it.
With WSL, I expect organisations will want to deploy standard VM's, whether the running versions are common to all users or dedicate (and thus stored in a users profile) is a slightly different problem.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 20:03 GMT Shades
Re: So what's the improvement in the store version?
WTF are you on about?
I don't have a MS account, never had an MS account, and yet, here I am looking at Windows Subsystem for Linux in the MS store app. The "Get" button is active and if I click on it it proceeds as expected. IIRC MS may have expected you to have an MS account for their store app under Windows 8 but they ditched that requirement ages ago.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 17:25 GMT oiseau
Re: This is good IMHO
... and the ability to run Linux GUI apps under Windows 10.
Hmm ...
And why on earth would you want to do things the wrong way around?
Run a systemd-less Linux distribution and a VM with as much M$ stuff you want on it.
You can then run M$ apps and also have a decent OS. 8^D
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 23:03 GMT Fred Goldstein
Re: This is good IMHO
Yes, it would be nice. But I'm using Windows 10 Pro (I do not trust Windows 11 at all; they alternate between usable and junk releases, and 11 is like 8 and Vista, likely junk) and the Store does not offer WSL2 to me. It only offers command-line mode WSL. So either the article is premature or wrong.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 12:17 GMT JohnTill123
There's a better solution to WSL.
Just run Linux on your own hardware. You get all the benefits of Linux with none of the drawbacks of Windows. No licenses, no M$ stealing your data and reselling it, no need for M$ accounts in the "cloud", no mandatory subscription payments.
Just say NO to Windows!
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 13:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: There's a better solution to WSL.
I can't run linux natively on the work machine - so WSL means I can get pretty good access to tools and decent performance (better than in native Windows for Java dev stuff) while still on the mandated machine.
Is it perfect? No. Is it better than no alternative? Hell yes!!
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Wednesday 23rd November 2022 21:17 GMT tojb
Uninstalled wsl2 today
Unlike wsl1, wsl2 doesn't give a consistent Mac address but creates a new one for your card every reboot. This plays hob with licence verification for paid software running on the Linux subsystem, as well as with per-device authentication for secured networks. Complete fail.