Again, WSL2 is literally the Linux kernel as a Hyper-V VM. "WSL 2 uses the latest and greatest in virtualization technology to run a Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM)" (You can look at the source on Github and verify that yes, that's a mainline Linux kernel with a few patches.) There's a lot of integration helpers to make the experience more streamlined than a typical VM, but that's all it is under the hood.BaronVerde wrote: ↑Sat, 26. Jun 21, 21:45WSL2 is a stripped kernel implementation, it is not a VM, it uses a downsized VM as a shim for performance reasons. And I am nitpicking and in smart ass mode There's a Microsot document describing the principle, whose link I've lost. But you don't need it the WSL when you can have the real thing with little effort (download an image, copy to a stick, and boot it). For running elfs on Windows, but ok, who cares ?
I'm as big a Linux advocate as anybody, but this is nonsense. Windows is still a major player in the corporate server world and absolutely dominant for corporate workstations, and it's just as secure as Linux, if not more. Perceptions of its lack of security come primarily from a) its popularity making it a great big target, and b) historically having been rather slow to catch up to that fact. But Microsoft have been investing incredibly heavily in security for years now and Windows provides an excellent suite of defence in depth security measures. If you switched out every end user Windows PC for a Linux one right now and left the OS security untouched on both, users' security would get worse, not better. (Linux-based platforms like Chromebooks and Android are better, but that's the tradeoff that comes from having a locked-down platform with additional restrictions and security measures in place.)Windows isn't exactly the first choice OS when it comes to security, it is holey as a kitchen sieve and relies on closed source and constant patching. It plays no or marginal role outside of the enduser market and on the PC platform, simply because it comes pre-installed and people these days don't install their OSes any more, and of course because of perfect marketing and spreading some FUD about unavilability of software, etc..
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This is also nonsense, though. It's not the 00s any more. You do get occasional issues with esoteric bits of hardware like biometric security in laptops and things, which is still kinda the domain of random hobbyists reverse engineering drivers, but claiming popular mainstream things like new CPU generations have issues is obviously absurd. New CPUs get rolled out in colossal numbers to cloud hosting providers which run Linux virtualisation stacks and Intel and AMD both commit a lot of code to the Linux kernel.Vertigo 7 wrote: ↑Sun, 27. Jun 21, 00:43Linux constantly lags the industry in adoption of new technologies. How long did it take for Linux to natively support WPA encryption? IF there was even a driver available for your wireless NIC. I've seen the same thing for SATA and SAS HBAs and new generations of CPUs, on and on. Manufacturers always release windows drivers first and deal with MS before they even consider Linux, and that's even IF they do at all. You end up a lot of the times waiting on some basement dweller to reverse engineer a windows driver to get a hacky work around to cooperate in Linux.
Look, I'll admit that Linux is fine if you wanna try to get a few more years out of dated hardware or you have some single use device like a firewall or DNS server or some such you wanna run on a discrete device. But general use and day to day use.... newp.
As far as your random end user goes, honestly, Linux and Windows are generally both fine. People tend to be more used to Windows because of popularity, but that doesn't make Linux unsuitable. Most users are mostly just using a web browser these days anyway. For gaming, sure, Linux is still a pain and I still mostly game on Windows, though Proton is surprisingly good these days. For corporate applications, both have their pros and cons in different situations. We don't need to have religious wars about operating systems! Most of the really bad ones are dead now! (IoT aside, anyway.)