Even at Microsoft, developers were using Apple MacBooks to do their jobs. Now, Windows 10 is including the Linux kernel as part of its play to win them over.
2, or WSL2, which means the kernel of the open source operating system Linux will be included with Windows 10.has led the company to a complete turnaround.
Determined to win its own developers back, Microsoft started looking into what it would take for them to switch to Windows again. The feedback? Many developers, both within and outside of Microsoft, said they wanted to be able to run their software on Linux, the open source operating system that's mega-popular with developers., which actually lets Windows 10 users run a full-on version of Linux right from their desktop.
The problem with the first iteration of WSL is that while it did a good job of allowing Windows 10 to run Linux software, everything had to be filtered through the Windows kernel — the core of the operating system, which manages the system's most basic functions like processors and memory. WSL translated the requirements of the Linux software into something comprehensible to the Windows kernel, and back. It worked, but it could be slow.
The goal, says Gallo, is to make Windows 10 the best operating system on which to develop software, and win over those Apple users.
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