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Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10:
Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration
Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to Windows 10 with WSL version 2 later this month, and it’s now planning to support Linux GUI apps that will run alongside regular Windows apps.
This will be enabled without Windows users having to use X11 forwarding, and it’s mainly designed for developers to run Linux integrated development environments (IDE) alongside regular Windows apps.
While it has been possible to run Linux GUI apps within Windows previously using a third-party X server, poor graphics performance has always been an issue. Microsoft is promising to solve this, too. Windows 10 will soon get added support for GPU hardware acceleration with Linux tools. This is primarily focused on development scenarios involving parallels computation or training machine learning and artificial intelligence models.
So is it the year of Linux on the Desktop?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:16AM (5 children)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish [wikipedia.org]
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:20AM (4 children)
Can't wait to see what they'll do with systemd.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:21AM
Oh, nothing. It's just Windows scheduler code. Relax and breathe normally as we're all assimilated.
(Score: 3, Touché) by toddestan on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:34AM
Microsoft doesn't need systemd. Windows already has svchost.exe.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:35AM
Improve windows.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:19PM
This whole situation calls into question the calculus behind systemd.
If the idea really was that Linux needed Windows-like service management, then clearly WSL 2 is the better solution. You can run Linux within Windows and get a much more mature solution than anything Red Hat could build in such a short time.
Perhaps it was all a ploy to get us used to an inferior version of Windows instead of the actually different product that used to be Linux.
Or perhaps they really still think that systemd makes RHEL a stronger competitor.
Either way, now is a good time to divest from low-level Linux stuff in general and move to either a BSD for low-level stuff or Docker for pure user-space.
Linux on the desktop is dead, my friends.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?