Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally? admitting where developers want to be

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-05, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/4/26 19:36, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
>> On 2026-07-04, Robert Heller wrote:
>> 
>>> At 4 Jul 2026 18:23:24 GMT rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.xda-developers.com/wsl-keeps-getting-better-and-its-because-microsoft-is-finally-admitting-where-developers-want-to-be/>
>>>>
>>>> It must leave a sour taste.
>>>
>>> It is also *probably* too little too late.
>> 
>> Hmm, then they better add a GenAI interface on top of it, perhaps with
>> an animated character to make it more "user-friendly" and funny.
>
>    Pikachu !  :-)
>
>    Maybe a "Minion" !!!
>
>    Those ought to be about the mental level of
>    today's 'users'.

Bring back Clippy!

>    As for "Microsoft Developers" ... I just think they
>    want big money for doing basically nothing. That's
>    the Gen-Z/A2 paradigm. They "just deserve" the high
>    life because, well, Just Because .........

That's why they went to the SaaS model.  Write it once,
collect money forever.

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