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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: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:05AM (6 children)
I'm ambivalent about systemd - it's not any harder (or easier) to work with than the hodge podge collection of schema it tries to replace. The one thing that really got me to respect systemd as a legitimate step forward was the generation of Raspbian that let you optionally switch to systemd, the Pi would boot in something less than half the time with the systemd version.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:18AM (4 children)
I'm perfectly happy with Systemd.
It is way easier to work with than the hodge-podge, ramshackle nonsense we had to try to figure out in the past.
Unfortunately there are a bunch of Internet posters who think it is edgy to pretend Systemd is somehow a bad thing.
Anyway, it's Linux. If you don't like it, use something else.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:24AM (1 child)
Can you explain to me why updating Firefox silently installed systemd on one of my machines? Because that happened, and it left that system unbootable. Both KDE and Gnome have undeclared dependencies on systemd, and every other desktop environment is under pressure to follow suit. I never wanted the damned thing in the first place. Now get off my lawn.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:42PM
Because your distribution maintainers suck at their job, would be my first guess. My second guess would be you were using a distro, that you then highly customized outside of the expected norm. If you want full control of your system use a distro that provides that, you want an "easy to use" all-in-one solution, don't be shocked when your hyper-customizationed system breaks during an update.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by darkfeline on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:18AM
Most anti-systemd folks aren't capable of reasonable criticism, but systemd has issues, in particular, its abstraction model is complicated in a negative sense and poorly documented.
This extremely long article provides the historical context around systemd and a technical analysis: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ [darknedgy.net]
The thing is, even with all of the issues that systemd has:
1. By now, most of the issues that matter for actual use cases have been stamped out.
2. For all its faults, it makes a lot of things better, especially for distro maintainers
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Pav on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:36AM
It was a genius move by Redhat - take over a codebase almost as fundamental to Linux as the kernel itself. Nerds as a whole aren't even socially competent let alone politically astute, so there's less need to eg. push corporate climbers into the Debian and Firefox leadership. After Richard Stallman got linked (??!!) to Jeffrey Epstein and rolled out of his own movement there will probably even be a new more friendly GPL on all that code they control, or at least no new GPL that addresses any new issues threatening the movement (unless it's "gender equality" or some other smokescreen issue that has no effect on corporate profits). Control code bases, lock unaffiliated hackers out, complicate things beyond the ability of unaffiliated hackers or small groups to fork and fix... The Empire Strikes Back it seems.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:19PM
The night systemd ate the world! Now available on VHS.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.