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I'm having a hard time understanding why this is so important? Linux is "just" the kernel. Surely everybody knows this? And if they didn't then surely Android and ChromeOS made that distinction clear?

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The argument is that Windows Subsystem for Linux has no Linux code in it.

edit: I'm having a hard time coming up with a name which would be correct and Microsofty enough. But I think it would be a oxymoron.

Microsoft Xunil?

Xenix 2!

That was originally known as Xenix V and was released in 1985. IBM sold it as Xenix 2.0 at the time. SCO was using Arabic version numbers by 1988, when it was up to Xenix 386 Release 2.3.

GNU/Windows

ENIW: Embracing Neatly Inverted WINE

We had the discussion of the name here on Hacker News when WSfL first came out. I and others pointed out that these subsystems are, and have been for decades, effectively named after the kernel that is actually left out and replaced by the Windows NT kernel. There wasn't an OS/2 kernel in the OS/2 subsystem, for example.

Linux might be the name of the kernel, but we use Linux to refer to the whole ecosystem too. For example, people say "I'm running Linux" when they run e.g. Ubuntu or Debian etc, not when they run Android. Running "Linux" doesn't mean just running the kernel.

And in the MS case, the argument is the opposite: MS calls it a "MS subsystem for Linux" but there's absolutely no Linux kernel code in it. Just emulation of APIs and the GNU userland.

He’s referencing an old old copypasta.

Ah thanks. I'm terrible at navigating twitter.

You could alternatively view it as Twitter being terrible at presenting anything other than the trivial and superficial in a legible manner. (-:

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