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Sudo is coming to Windows 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary and Dev Channels.

Insiders in the Canary Channel will receive Build 26052.1000 while Insiders in the Dev Channel will receive Build

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[+] n3m37h@lemmy.world -18 points 9 months ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Fucking microcrap

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago

...what?

I'm always aboard the Microsoft hate train, but I don't see how them adding sudo fits within EEE. Here's an excerpt from microsoft/sudo on Github:

Obviously, everything about permissions and the command line experience is different between Windows and Linux. This project is not a fork of the Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of the Linux sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.

As the two are entirely different applications, you'll find that certain elements of the Linux sudo experience are not present in Sudo for Windows, and vice versa.

Despite sharing a name and features, they're for two completely separate platforms and offer no interoperability. If MS decided to release their version of sudo for Linux, maybe we could talk about EEE. For now, all they've done is implement a useful tool from another platform into theirs, and that's a (rare) positive for MS, even if this feature should have existed like 30 years ago.

[-] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Will this not dilute search results related to sudo? It's minor but I think could be considered EEE.

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sounds like a bit of a desperate reach to attach the EEE label to this.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

Desperation is when there is no reason to think something can be done. I'm way past the stage of assuming honest intentions from M$. If this comes to bite us like EEE then shame on us.

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

To be honest, it just sounds like you have an unnecessary chip on your shoulder.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

It's up to me to decide my friend from my foe, appears justified and important to me.

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