Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux to become its biggest base

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10 points·DemiGuru··6 comments

Personally I'm a fan of wsl, it has let me dip my toes and transition slowly into the environment, enough so over the last 4 years that this weekend im wiping windows from everything I control. Windows does nothing but bring me pain at this point.

I wouldn't want ubuntu on bare metal anyway tbh. There was a time I loved it (I still have CDs I used to get!) But that time is long gone.

I personally wouldn't want Microsoft Windows on bare metal considering how much spyware, AI bloat, and advertising right in the Start Menu Microsoft has packed into it the last decade and a half. Anything windows related is a either a virtual machine that gets booted up for the task and then shut back down, or a reboot into the dusty Windows dual boot drive.

i don't want windows either. I just use another distro. Ubuntu isn't as great as it used to be

"Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux" - how, when the virtual machine running under WSL is literally running a Linux kernel. If anything, it's just another Ubuntu installation. Alternatively, perhaps we should call Windows hosted in a vm on a Linux machine a Linux installation of Windows? I can't even with this nonsense.

> Many devs stuck on Windows use WSL to run Ubuntu for ML/AI work.

"stuck on Windows" is pretty telling here -- if Windows could it would already have replaced Linux ages ago. And it's not by lack of trying that they haven't.

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