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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Wine 11 brings huge WoW64 overhaul, NTSYNC boost, and better gaming on Linux (nerds.xyz)

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Wine fans have a reason to smile today. Wine 11.0 is finally here, and it is a big deal for anyone running Windows software on Linux. After a full year of work, more than six thousand code changes, and hundreds of bug fixes, Wine is moving forward in a way that feels like a turning point. This release tightens up major subsystems, improves performance, expands hardware support, and carries a big win for compatibility. If you have been waiting for Wine to feel smoother and a little less fussy, 11.0 might be the moment you jump back in.

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[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, could you trust a company that created a Linux container subsystem for Windows and named it Windows Subsystem for Linux to name things correctly?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Windows has subsystems. They're called Windows Subsystems. This one's for Linux. However you slice it, the initialism has to have WS in it.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

People do not realize that Windows has, and has had, other subsystems. So the name seems dumb.

When you realize that as far back as 1993 there was:

subsystem for Win32
subsystem for POSIX
subsystem for OS/2

then Subsystem for Linux does not seems as crazy.

Having “for Windows” at the end sounds natural if you only have one but putting saying “Windows subsystem for” makes more sense when you realize there are a bunch of them.

Regardless, the decision was made 30 years ago and not recently as people assume.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 32 minutes ago

The obvious choice is to rename Wine to Linux Subsystem for Windows

[–] Vinapocalypse@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Linux on Windows Subsystem" or "Windows Subsystem: Linux" or "Lin4Win" anything would be better

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It's not the 'Linux on' subsystem, it's the 'Linux on Windows' subsystem, so it'd have to be Linux on Windows Windows Subsystem, which would be silly. It can't have a colon in it as some command-line tools take a subsystem as an argument, and traditionally, Windows command-line tools have used colons the same way Unix has used equals, i.e. to separate an argument name from its value, and parsing that gets harder when you're expecting colons in the value, too.