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    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Linux Subsystem for Windows, my beloved

    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    First version: attempt to reimplement the windows API on top of Linux

    Second version: give up and embed Windows inside a VM

    [–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    He said Linux Subsystem for Windows, which I took to mean the opposite of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux

    (for reference, look at the difference between WSL1 and WSL2)

    [–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

    Ah. Whoosh on me I guess.

    [–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Explain this to a really new linux user (me lol)

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Most distros use systemd to manage deamons (mini apps that run in background / sevices) like e.g. Bluetooth.

    (those stuff you have to enable sometimes (systemctl enable my-new-app.service)

    You can use systemd-manager to check it out using a GUI

    This meme tells „imagine if windows would port Systemd to windows. Winsvc stands for Windows Service

    [–] jaromil@fed.dyne.org 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    also the creator of systemd went to work at mikrosoft

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

    😮did not know that

    [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wait there is a GUI for SystemD? I had no idea

    [–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Is that actually different? My phone autocorrected it like that.

    [–] maeries@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

    Linux is case sensitive, so yeah

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

    It is old, but it does not look bad in my opinion 😁 it is such a good overview, I don‘t know why KDE does not include it in its settings

    [–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Explain this to a long-time runit user... (Seriously, I'm lost)

    [–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 months ago

    Explain this to an OpenBSD rc user (there's no OpenBSDMemes)

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Imagine if systemd was ported as the Windows init manager. (Memes about systemd being inspired by Windows with its bloat).

    [–] edinbruh@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Systemd was actually a "clone" of apple's launchd. Similarities with windows arise from the fact that it makes sense to manage services in certain ways on modern OSs. Also services on windows are completely different from Linux and MacOS, they are even a different executable file format, not a normal exe.

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

    I know lol. It was a joke, although I do think that in theory leaner systems like Runit are better. But I cannot dismiss some of the innovation/work done in systemd

    [–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago
    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

    The argument of Systemd being more and more like Windows-behind-the-hoods.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago

    That would actually be interesting. I wonder if you could use the React OS kernel to run all kinds of software

    [–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

    This is potterdung's ultimate plan.

    [–] lord_admiral@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] vinyl@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago