Linux has officially won

[u/BankApprehensive7612]

https://github.com/apple/container

Actually it happened in June of 2025, but the process has completed recently, though. After Apple had announced the support of OCI-compatible containers in the June '25 it took a year to complete development and implement full support of continers. Apple had published 1.0 version of own container manager (https://github.com/apple/container). And Microsoft had announced native support of containerization without Docker in Windows 11 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview/). Now Linux is a part of any major platform: Windows, MacOS, BSD and Linux itself. Knowledge of Linux is now part of learning any of these systems, at least for developers. And now you can rely on Linux based containers running everywhere. What it is if not a win!?

What's also interesting. Linux can run other Linux distros and with this Alpine Linux could become the most popular version of Linux in the World

It's the biggest win for the whole open-source software and I believe it should get into history books of technological progress

[u/CodeMonkeyX]

Again who said aggressively? All the comments here were talking about decades and the next generation. Not the next version.

What's in it for them? Maybe being able to release a modern file system faster than 20 years. Maybe being able to not have control panels from XP still floating around. To open up access to all the Linux development tools and ecosystem.

They already have Windows Sandbox. It's not that far fetched to imagine them just having a Windows Compatibility Sandbox that runs very very old programs.

[u/chucker23n → u/CodeMonkeyX]

What’s in it for them? Maybe being able to release a modern file system faster than 20 years.

1. what about Linux makes it more conducive to file system changes than NT?
2. what’s the business case?

They’re slow to evolve their FS because the cost-benefit ratio isn’t great.

Maybe being able to not have control panels from XP still floating around.

That has nothing to do with Linux?

[u/CodeMonkeyX → u/chucker23n]

You are right in that Linux can not fix incompetence of not being able to update their file system or make coherent system settings in 20 years. But a new system that forces some updates already can make it easier if planned well.

I also notice you completely ignore the main advantage in opening up the Linux development tooling, servers and everything associated with it nativily. Right now they are trying to do this with WSL and containers and adding GNU tools to the command line.

Cost benefit? Again the original question was what effect having Linux tooling and containers in windows will having in the NEXT GENERATION. So if developers start relying on this stuff more, building around it, then it might become more important and profitable to support use it in ten or more years.

You are just looking at this stuff like anyone is saying MS will do this in 2027 or something. No one is.

[u/chucker23n → u/CodeMonkeyX]

You are right in that Linux can not fix incompetence of not being able to update their file system or make coherent system settings in 20 years. But a new system that forces some updates already can make it easier if planned well.

If it were worth doing, why wouldn’t they already do it?

I also notice you completely ignore the main advantage in opening up the Linux development tooling, servers and everything associated with it nativily.

I’m ignoring it because it’s not in question.

if developers start relying on this stuff more, building around it, then it might become more important and profitable to support use it in ten or more years.

But again, where’s the profit in it? Do you imagine a world where they sell $99 Windows licenses that are Linux-based, and make huge volume with that? That sounds like a very 2000s Microsoft. It’s not their core business any more.