Azure Linux Desktop

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24 points | by haydenbarnes 5 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • sublimefire 34 minutes ago

    Even within MS Azure Linux is at odds because it is not working in WSL out of the box. Folks had to port stuff to AZL away from ubuntu but without an easy path to use WSL to continue development. Sure you could adopt it but there is something fundamentally fragmented if such an adoption vector is missing in WSL. Now this… why do I need AZL desktop?

  • dzonga 19 minutes ago

    someone once said - windows will die or will be killed by Microsoft - when they start pushing a windows flavored linux distro.

    with all the arm chips coming into consumer hardware - seems we are about to be there.

  • bpavuk an hour ago

    I am more excited about WinUI Reactor than anything else. the gap between Compose/React thinking and XAML thinking is enormous, and Reactor just bridges it. I am curious about interoperability - how would one include a Reactor-based component into existing WinUI 3 app? how would one include a XAML-based control from some other library into a (future) modern WinUI Reactor app?

    • pjmlp an hour ago

      Don't be, if the WinUI team past performance is anything to come by.

      They will leave it half baked like everything else since Project Reunion was announced in 2020.

  • neogodless an hour ago

    More on Azure Linux 4.0:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499 Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (boxofcables.dev)

    1 day ago | 143 comments

  • baq an hour ago

    The year of the Linux desktop.

    Meanwhile I’m stuck on macOS for work. Oh the irony.

  • leoncos 3 hours ago

    Great work! I really hope it can be designed to be agent-friendly. The current CodeX/Claude code sandbox functionality is very limited; it would be wonderful to use this as a sandbox.

  • cryo32 an hour ago

    That’ll be deprecated in 6 months. Nope.

    • pjmlp an hour ago

      This is not official.

      Azure Linux 4.0 is the next version of Azure Linux (duh), and WSL base distro.