call me old fashioned isn't a general purpose OS one that runs on any hardware and set up? and is certified with hardware vendors for full backing and support?

all this says is: "MS now provides a unified Linux from WSL to the MS cloud. just like what you got w/ SUSE RH canonical up to now. but without any support outside the MS stack.", right?

or am I missing something?

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PacificSpecific 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day

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steve1977 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd say old fashioned Linux would come without any certification or support.

	▲	froh 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't mean DIY / Linux from scratch. and I meant where I come from a general purpose OS is for any purpose, not just to run it on a very specific stack. SUSE - Find Certified Hardware Products https://www.suse.com/yesCertified/home similar pages exist for RH and canonical but then Windows also is a general purpose OS. hm. what if MS strategizes on their hyper-v as hypervisor, with windows as control Panel and all payload on their Azure Linux? popcorn time?

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starkgoose 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I fell like this could be a move to purposefully mislead and confuse "Normies" of what to expect from "general purpose Linux" means.

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haydenbarnes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

ISV certification is coming.

On-prem hardware support would be interesting, wouldn't it?

	▲	froh 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		without certification of other clouds and any hardware this is not general purpose. their plan might however be a Micro-Windows, which only boots the hyper-v, which then runs that Linux. that move would leverage the Microsoft Windows hardware certification.

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hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AFAIK it isn’t a declared term my left shoe is my first general purpose operating system, if i toss an esp32 in there i can probably call it linux too.