Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?

How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?

Sorry, but I believe the blog post author's statements regarding "statistics" are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.

The "AI" part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:

AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.

Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew...

As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

# Fun Is Social

My first real experience of OSS was with a successful, established project whose culture I could observe. It was KDE, the community behind a desktop environment for Linux...

Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships...

Source

It's a lot easier to install a program than it is to switch operating systems and ecosystems

Ew, you made me actually read the article.

Canonical’s VP of Engineering says Ubuntu’s user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux is growing significantly faster than its native desktop user base, and he expects WSL to overtake native Ubuntu installations within months

And there it is, right in the opening sentence: the bullshit trying to make windows look good somehow. Feels like entrapment. like how Google‘s AI answers are stealing actual click-throughs for the websites that are generating the answers people are really looking for.

the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

Well money would be a huge motivator on its own. Unless his idea of motivation is to bring out the whips..

he expects WSL to overtake native Ubuntu installations within months

Yeah, because no one is installing Ubuntu anymore.

It's hilarious that even my mother (a somewhat technical person, used to use Ubuntu on a hand-me-down laptop of mine) explicitly asked me "what ever happened to Ubuntu? I stopped using it when they started using that weird new install system"

One brief explanation later, we're putting bazzite on the home pc because win 10 is going out of support.

They say it like it's a good thing.

A lot of work places need to keep their workstations on Windows for mdm and security compliance etc, or the IT staff does not have the bandwidth to add another OS for their developers and keep it compliant. Installing an app to run a Linux environment in userspace is easier than getting everything supported on bare metal workstations.

I dont mean to kick anybody, but Ubuntu is the worst of all the big name distros imo. What is its purpose? It got its lunch ate by everything and even back in the dsy slapping Debian on anything I had running Ubuntu immediately made it better.

I will never understand why it's called the Windows subsystem for Linux instead of the other way around? Doesn't Linux system for Windows make so much more sense?

I use Ubuntu for ease of use. Kubuntu is my flavor of choice. It just works for me so I don’t really have a reason to switch.

After my previous foray into Linux, I really didn't want to spend a lot of time fucking around with drivers trying to get all my components to work. Ubuntu and its derivatives were about the only things that had my network card and my audio card work out of the box, and while I might be willing to spend some time getting audio working, I am absolutely not going to use a second computer to get networking working on the first.

I don’t like the name but I don’t think so.

Linux system for Windows = adapted Linux to be able to run in Windows

Windows subsystem = adapted Windows to be able to run regular linux

Windows: subsystem for Linux

I agree. Ubuntu gets dunked on a lot, but I am happy with it. If it works for you, run it.

I put my dad on Kubuntu because it's the "normie distro" and I already use KDE on my arch boxes. I have not yet had to support it and it's been a year 🤞🤞

It’s such a chill experience. I use it for gaming and to run my Plex server. It literally never gives me problems.

It's pretty damn brilliant. Install Docker CD in WSL and Docker CLI on Windows with Chocolatey and get Linux devcontainer VS Code workspaces locally.

Because their earlier thingy that added partial posix compatibility was called 'windows services for unix', they just continued with backwards naming scheme.

Is it because it's dropping the implied "running," as in "Windows Services for (running) UNIX (programs)" and "Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux (programs)"?