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Some of us are old enough to remember Corel Linux. It was about as mainstream as Linux could have gotten.

It shipped with WordPerfect Office, which was still neck and neck with Microsoft Office at the time, including WordPerfect, Quattro, Corel Presentations, Corel Draw, all there.

It had migration tools to move Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook, mIRC, and ICQ settings, and Windows registry settings to Corel Linux.

It shipped with a Wine-based Windows application compatibility layer out of the box.

It lasted less than a year.

> Article mischaracterizes the experience of running x64 apps on Windows on Arm, which is Rosetta 2-like at this point, but whatever

Where is the translation layer that lets me seamlessly run x64 apps on Linux on Arm?

Those moves are made by Red Hat, to benefit their enterprise customers, because enterprise customers are the ones who pay for Linux, their interests get top priority.

Shuttleworth did so much for desktop Linux by mailing us all free install CDs, but then users everywhere began to expect Linux to be free as in beer.

But until users are willing to pay for desktop Linux again, like some of us may remember, enterprise will always win out.

Thanks to the WSL System Distro, we no longer need distro-specific instructions to build a WSL custom kernel. A standard, ephemeral build environment is right there, on every WSL installation.

Rocky Linux is a rebuild of RHEL using end-runs around the RHEL EULA. Whether you like the RH EULA or not, that still puts Rocky on shaky ground.

AlmaLinux is built from the same CentOS Sources as RHEL and patches faster, with no legal shenanigans, and, unlike Rocky Linux, is backed by an actual non-profit community that is not dominated by a single company.

To me, AlmaLinux is the true community successor to legacy CentOS.

The vague complaints of the CoPilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.

This is possible but not recommended unless you are very cautious.

Windows Defender protects from Windows malware entering via WSL and Linux malware as well.

For example Windows Defender has caught comprimised npm modules inside WSL.

On a technical level Ubuntu 18.04 is based on a mix of Debian stable and testing with Canonical's additions.

Pengwin is primarily Debian testing, with some stable and some unstable here and there.

Pengwin configures dozens of settings for WSL and has optional WSL-specific features.

Settings are delivered by pengwin-base and features can be configured with pengwin-setup.

You could probably spend hours implementing these features on your own each time you have to install Ubuntu on a new Windows device.

But by purching Pengwin you support open source indie devs that handle it for you, answer bug reports, constantly add new featres, and are available for support.