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		lmm on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android... Bear in mind that that strategy backfired horribly for OS/2 - it was "a better windows than windows", but the result was that no-one bothered writing native apps for OS/2 when they could use the Windows API and get an app that ran on both.

Epa095 on Dec 20, 2022 [–]

If Microsoft keeps this in mind they will make sure to never make it too easy to install and run a Linux program, but still easy enough so that developers choose Windows for their own development machine.

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