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Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on Linux PCs, says Canonical (www.windowslatest.com)
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[โ€“] esc@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because their earlier thingy that added partial posix compatibility was called 'windows services for unix', they just continued with backwards naming scheme.

[โ€“] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Is it because it's dropping the implied "running," as in "Windows Services for (running) UNIX (programs)" and "Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux (programs)"?