[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Apr 20 19:03:49 EDT 2024


On 4/20/2024 6:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:17:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> No. [WSL] is for developers.
> 
> It may be now, but how long do you think it will stay that way? It seems
> very likely that, at some point, WSL will become a mandatory part of a
> Windows install.

Not likely.

Nobody will want to run server apps in WSL for production. There
are more suitable ways to run Windows and Linux on same
box whether it is VMWare ESXi, KVM or (plain) Hyper-V.

And for desktop then the general users have no interest
in anything Linux.

Arne




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