-=> andrew clarke wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ac> Yes, although I often ran into problems with the Windows ports not
 ac> quite working the way they should. Likewise years ago when I ran OS/2
 ac> on my main machine and ran UNIX ports of various things, thanks to EMX.

I had Windows ports sometimes not working the same occasionally.  And I had
heard of EMX on OS/2, but I avoided anything UNIX until I started playing with
Linux in late 1995. :)

 ac> No doubt the situation has improved a lot these days but I like that
 ac> Microsoft have finally embraced the idea of a Linux environment on top
 ac> of Windows 10, because it's going to take a lot of the stress away from
 ac> wondering whether something is going to work properly or not.

Yes, at least there will be a somewhat "standard" Linux environment within
Windows for people to work with.

 ac> In 5-10 years time when Windows 10 becomes the default OS on the
 ac> majority of PCs (for better or worse), at least the Linux environment
 ac> will be a standard component everyone* can install and use with very
 ac> little effort.

Yep.  Wonder what effect that will have on Linux use, given that the barriers
to Linux adoption will have been lowered somewhat - new Linux users could be
familiar with how it works, without actually installing it. :)


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