If they dont use wine, they’ll sell you a subscription to a cloud machine running legacy Windows to run your legacy apps in. They already have this product Windows cloud pc is a thing

terminal does support a bunch of different shells, including cmd

Why is the headline so incredulous of the literal developer who authored the patches?

I honestly dont know what would drive a Windows refugee to choose such a niche and likely unable to support them distro.

my friend and I used to use net send to message each other on the school network (this is back in the 90s), then someone worked out you could send to all PCs on the network, sysadmins were not happy

I’ve worked IT in schools and the hoops kids have to jump through to do similar stuff on our networks is so much harder

you could assign every square meter of the planet an ip and use it for location, and still have addresses left over

Its not like they’re blocking all contributions, if it was more than niche, they wouldnt ignore the needs of other big players. I’m not fully across it, but the BSDs still make more use of xorg and maintain their own trees IIRC.

I really only saw headlines about Xlibre, hadnt followed up on it

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

I agree Gnome 3+ is bad, but we do need modern components and honestly when the next biggest player in these things in Canonical with there NIH / throw it over the fence and like it attitude, I know which I’d prefer. Especially when these components truly are upstream projects, and they do indeed take community contributions.

almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to.

Yeah the xorg thing is shit for those that feel they still need it, but no one else really had the resources to maintain it. Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10). Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

I refuse to use Fedora (because it’s basically their testing bed)

interesting take

RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development

I’m interested in any examples you can provide of this

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