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Microsoft Azure Linux is now available

submitted by AugustineOfHippo2 to Linux 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 11:36:55 ago (+10/-0)     (www.theregister.com)

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/microsoft_azure_linux_container/

how strange.


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[ - ] GloryBeckons 6 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 12:52:47 ago (+6/-0)*

Most of Microsoft Azure's internal servers have been running on Linux for a while.

Windows 11 has a built-in Linux subsystem as well.

Windows 12 will probably be a Linux distro at this rate. Packed to the brim with unholy proprietary garbage, spyware that tracks your every keystroke, and advertisement popups every time your mic catches you talking about a product, of course.

Might as well switch to the real thing now, if you haven't already.

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 1 point 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 16:04:30 ago (+1/-0)

Well obviously Azure is like a Linux cloud thing. That's not really threatening Windows whatever's preinstall base.

[ - ] chrimony 2 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 12:20:41 ago (+2/-0)

Not strange at all. When Microsoft sees a market isn't going away, they embrace, extend, extinguish. Though these days their market dominance isn't enough anymore to pull of the extinguish part.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 1 point 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 16:14:53 ago (+1/-0)

If I ever migrate to Linux, this will be the only version I won't try.

[ - ] totalitariat 0 points 11 monthsMay 29, 2023 19:43:25 ago (+0/-0)

You don't have to migrate, just buy a cheap, used dual or quad core laptop or desktop from ten years ago or whenever, and slap a SATA SSD in it. Make an installation USB on your current Windows machine and learn how to install a linux distro, like Mint, Debian, or Ubuntu, just because those are easy. You can learn, find alternatives or linux versions of the software you use, and even break it by being a retard, without having to do dual boot asspain or fucking up your current system. I like to keep a Windows box just for gaming, like an Xbox that also runs Steam, pretty much. But after watching Win7 devolve into Win8, recover-ish with Win10, and devolve again into Win11, I prefer to do everything else on a cheap ass decade+ old dual core that would be utterly useless without Linux.

[ - ] JustALover 1 point 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 11:44:33 ago (+1/-0)

Not strange, really. There is a whole generation of naive idiots that have grown up not knowing how terrible Microsoft behaved in the 90s. They only see the "new", shiny Microsoft and therefore they trust the globalist megacorporation.

[ - ] Grospoliner 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 22:52:08 ago (+0/-0)

Hard pass

[ - ] Kozel 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 15:50:55 ago (+0/-0)

I use XCP-NG with Xen Orchestra from sources, BTW!

[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 15:03:49 ago (+0/-0)

No.

[ - ] ghetto_shitlord 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 14:42:29 ago (+0/-0)

Nothing strange about it. The money is in services, Azure, M365, and ML, not OS sales.

Them snapping up Chat GPT will be as significant as Google having YouTube.

[ - ] ghetto_shitlord 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 14:41:48 ago (+0/-0)

Nothing strange about it. The money is in services, Azure, M365, and ML, not OS sales.

Them snapping up Chat GPT will be as significant as Google having YouTube.

[ - ] ghetto_shitlord 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 14:41:22 ago (+0/-0)

Nothing strange about it. The money is in services, Azure, M365, and ML, not OS sales.

Them snapping up Chat GPT will be as significant as Google having YouTube.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 12:57:23 ago (+0/-0)

I'm thinking of switching to Linux since Steam will stop running on Windows 7 next year; I've otherwise been using Windows 7 since around 2010. This will probably be the last MS OS I use at home.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 1 point 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 13:23:50 ago (+1/-0)

Kubuntu with Plasma and the latte dock is nice; along with the i3 windows manager for speed.

Then arch with DWM is better but a hassle.

[ - ] v0atmage 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 14:10:24 ago (+0/-0)

+1 for kde friendly linux distributions

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 14:21:10 ago (+0/-0)

You might as well be speaking Latin to me.

[ - ] GhostCow 1 point 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 22:54:25 ago (+1/-0)

Just install Linux Mint. You'll feel most at home there as someone coming from Windows.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 11 monthsMay 29, 2023 13:22:54 ago (+0/-0)

How is gaming with that OS? I watched a video on a different distro, and it offered a "try" option before doing a full install. Does Mint have that too? I don't have a problem with creating a partition on my hard drive to check it out.

[ - ] GhostCow 1 point 11 monthsMay 29, 2023 15:12:19 ago (+1/-0)*

Pretty much any distro can run from a flash drive except for highly autistic ones like Arch. Gaming on Linux is not a great experience and never will be, but it's somewhat doable if you only stick to buying games on Steam. You especially aren't going to have a good time if you have an Nvidia GPU. You really need an AMD GPU for Linux gaming.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 11 monthsMay 29, 2023 20:01:52 ago (+0/-0)

AMD is the only Team Red I'm on.

[ - ] totalitariat 0 points 11 monthsMay 29, 2023 20:11:58 ago (+0/-0)

Not good unless Valve is your favorite publisher. I keep a new computer with Windows 11 and a graphics card for gaming and use an ancient dual core with Mint for everything else. Despite all the work they've done with Proton for linux on Steam, there's just a lot of games that are made for Windows that don't Wine or Proton well. I've leaned that the number of CPUs or type of graphics card you spent money on only means anything for gaming and graphic design, and everything else can be done on ten year old pawn shop hardware.

[ - ] Kozel 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 15:52:45 ago (+0/-0)

Some games will run fine with Proton, some games will have performance problems. You can try Atlas OS, which is Win10/11 stripped bare: https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 16:08:16 ago (+0/-0)

I can't remember the last game that didn't routinely drop frames on Windows. Trying to go 60 or 72; nothing fancy here. Devs can't be arsed to optimize.

[ - ] Kozel 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 16:32:45 ago (+0/-0)

I don't mean dropped frames. I mean instead of getting 60 fps you'll get 40.

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 20:08:37 ago (+0/-0)

I guess it can always get worse.

[ - ] Grospoliner 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 22:54:38 ago (+0/-0)

Look up Chimera OS. It's only current out of box problem is multiple hard drive support at initial install which is remedied by some .ini adjustments to the OS boot system. It is an Arch build which means you can run Retroarch as well.

[ - ] Version6 0 points 11 monthsMay 28, 2023 11:58:45 ago (+0/-0)

So is this a competitor to vm-ware?