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the only problem with using Linux on windows is that tools like the event viewer are particularly useful.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Special Rules for Classical Names
See?
It's not only in programming languages that half-educated nutters have "brilliant ideas" (which are already covered by standard rules that they haven't learned, yet) and preach them as if they were Gospel!
In fact, there are far, far more non-expert "experts" in the English language than there are in all programming languages put together.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was looking up the rules about possessives and names...
Great minds... blah blah blah. I did the same a couple weeks ago. I've already forgotten the new rules, but they were interesting.  Another item you may be interested in regarding English as a whole is the book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, by John McWhorter. I've never read it, but listened to a podcast that is no longer available from a local Dallas station. Here is another podcast that still survives. Skip the first two minutes, because they are annoying: http://traffic.libsyn.com/mickelson/mickelson-2008-12-04.mp3?dest-id=21957. From the first six minutes (of 1:30:00) it seems to be as interesting as what I heard many years ago.
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David O'Neil wrote: I've already forgotten the new rules
Do that.
They're just style rules, which means that they're the personal preferences of the half-educated moron who wrote them.
There are only between 130 and 180 real rules of English grammar (depending on where you live). All the rest is bullsh1t from arrogant wankers who don't really know what they're talking about, but who talk really loudly anyway.
Empty vessels, again.
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Sounds like you're talking about yourself! 
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Thank you - put in my queue. I had tried Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue, but this sounds better. 
TTFN - Kent
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Unfortunately, only the first 15 minutes are on that book.  The podcast I listened to was a full hour, and it was fascinating, but I can't find it online anywhere. So maybe just find the book.
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Quote: You can expect to get more features, bugfixes, and general updates to WSL 2
But what about icons!?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why would anyone want to run fake Linux in Windows?
You can erun a VM with a full Linux distrro in it, AND share files and devices.
What is the tangible benefit of WSL over Linux in a VM?
Sounds like the C#8 team has migrated to the Windows team and started pushing pointless bullshit into the project...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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/shrug
Maybe it has more access to the Windows box? I've never become interested enough to care to figure out either. If they wanted to switch to Linux, why not create a full distro of their own?
TTFN - Kent
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Running Linux in a VM will always be a better idea.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Running Linux in a VM will always be a better idea. Do you really want to take a chance on MS screwing up WSL during an update, or waiting until THEY decide the kernel needs to be updated? IMHO, that's a blatantly BAD idea, almost as bad as using Visual Basic beyond the 3rd grade.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I suspect that the two of you are right. 
Also that having Linux playing too close to the various Windows API seems like it's just asking for security leakage. Having the isolation of a VM feels safer to me.
TTFN - Kent
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Resources and efficiency.
VM takes more and is less.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'll always take a Linux VM (4gb of RAM and minimal disk space, depending on the distro of course) over MS's idea of what Linux should be like.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think that's a proper response.
I think this is MS's attempt to do their usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" ... Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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What's WSL? 
As in, since I don't know what the heck it means, I most likely don't care either.
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Windows Semi-Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Windows' attempt to embrace Linux
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Google’s Area 120 team, the company’s in-house incubator for some of its more experimental projects, today launched Game Builder, a free and easy to use tool for PC and macOS users who want to build their own 3D games without having to know how to code. "I wanna know: what's the name of the game?"
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"Hey, buddies, I've called this meeting because dedicated gamers/developers are a solitary, private lot, and we're not getting enough personal information from them! What can we do about that?"
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Instead, he believes we’ll be listening to custom song equivalents that are automatically designed specifically for each individual, and tailored to their brain, their listening preferences and their particular needs. Software executive makes stupid prediction. News at 11.
Net worth: 2.1 billion USD
sigh
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Brings to mind Alan Moore's "different drummers".
Anyway, he's proved that "empty vessels make most sound".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Most of the "music" we listen to now isn't music...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ah, that's just proof you're old and grumpy 
Correct, but old and grumpy.
TTFN - Kent
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