Sites That Cover WSL Are Helping Microsoft's Attack on GNU/Linux
Calling out the typical culprits
WSL is an attack on GNU/Linux and thankfully it gained very little traction. Key people left and we assume it might be abandoned in the coming months/years, with its team scuttled altogether (we spent a lot of time explaining why). So who's still promoting it regardless?
Well, this past week it was OMG!Joey (OMG Microsoft) and Microsoft Larabel in so-called "Linux" sites (URLs are https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/wsl-gui-settings-apps-coming-soon and https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL2-2024-Features; we don't make these clickable) and the Microsoft-friendly Richard Speed was shilling "WSL" in https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/windows_subsystem_for_linux_gets/ (someone sent us this link early this morning).
Sites that even mention WSL (unless it is a condemnation of EEE) are not on our side, so naming and shaming them seems like much-deserved treatment. We already explained in great length what WSL is and what it is intended to achieve. Unless WSL is abandoned and its team laid off, sites like the above and 'repeat offenders' (OMG!Joey and Microsoft Larabel) would be wise to avoid giving Microsoft 'free press'.
Some years ago we still saw the habitual WSL "howtos"; over the past year those were so rare that we could go for months without seeing even one. Almost nobody uses it.
Microsoft Larabel's headline says "Linux "WSL" Features", but WSL is Windows, not Linux. █