Two days ago in Phoronix: (very soft on Microsoft)
Summary: Microsoft is trying to compel people to make "Linux" programs that only work in Windows* (WSL) and it is making the Mesa codebase a lot worse (some Mesa developers openly complained about it), but Phoronix puts a smile on and treats this like something to be celebrated**
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* This is classic, textbook "embrace, extend, extinguish" (later Microsoft pays OEMs to prevent them pre-installing GNU/Linux, instead shilling WSL or "app"); see the links at the top with videos that explained it in past years.
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.
Richard Stallman's seminal manifesto and foundational (practical) work on GNU gave us a very solid system that facilitates productive work without concerns over spyware
