I think the GP is more taking a jab at MS's history of being anti-open source, which has taken an about face in the last 5 years or so.
I mean we had Ballmer under whom you'd likely never have seen anything (or only trivial, non monetizable things) open sourced and likely no Linux support.
Now under Satya, we have MS open sourcing lots of projects and embracing Linux as a first class citizen. Probably far a complete list of Linux support, off the top of my I can name: VS Code, building for Linux via VS proper, Cmake support, WSL, SQL Server on Linux, SQL server odbc drivers, .Net Core and Linux support in Azure.
Even if projects are completely open, such as WSL and connhost, they have github projects at least for bug tracking that allows end-users to directly interact with the teams responsible for those projects. Personally, I've filed several issues against WSL and I've gotten fairly quick responses and resolutions usually appear in a few weeks time (I'm in the Fast Insider's ring at home).
I'm pretty impressed with WSL. I've just moved back to Windows (Dell XPS) after ~13 years using Mac OS, and in many ways WSL is nicer than what I used to do before with juggling Homebrew packages and Parallels VMs depending on the demands of a particular task. Between that, PowerShell, and installing stuff via Chocolatey, I feel right at home.
But without things like WSL and native OpenSSH, I doubt I would even have looked; I would have stuck with MacOS forever or just gone native Ubuntu.
Yes, it's on my list to check out! I just haven't yet found something I wanted to install that wasn't available in chocolatey—scoop's forte appears to be CLI utilities, and I haven't gotten as far into that realm.
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I think the GP is more taking a jab at MS's history of being anti-open source, which has taken an about face in the last 5 years or so.
I mean we had Ballmer under whom you'd likely never have seen anything (or only trivial, non monetizable things) open sourced and likely no Linux support.
Now under Satya, we have MS open sourcing lots of projects and embracing Linux as a first class citizen. Probably far a complete list of Linux support, off the top of my I can name: VS Code, building for Linux via VS proper, Cmake support, WSL, SQL Server on Linux, SQL server odbc drivers, .Net Core and Linux support in Azure.
Even if projects are completely open, such as WSL and connhost, they have github projects at least for bug tracking that allows end-users to directly interact with the teams responsible for those projects. Personally, I've filed several issues against WSL and I've gotten fairly quick responses and resolutions usually appear in a few weeks time (I'm in the Fast Insider's ring at home).
I'm pretty impressed with WSL. I've just moved back to Windows (Dell XPS) after ~13 years using Mac OS, and in many ways WSL is nicer than what I used to do before with juggling Homebrew packages and Parallels VMs depending on the demands of a particular task. Between that, PowerShell, and installing stuff via Chocolatey, I feel right at home.
But without things like WSL and native OpenSSH, I doubt I would even have looked; I would have stuck with MacOS forever or just gone native Ubuntu.
You've still got access to brew via linuxbrew.
https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
I'm also in the process of switching back from Macos to Windows thanks to WSL.
I personally prefer scoop as a package manager, give it a try!
Yes, it's on my list to check out! I just haven't yet found something I wanted to install that wasn't available in chocolatey—scoop's forte appears to be CLI utilities, and I haven't gotten as far into that realm.