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Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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This is backwards. Running Linux within Windows is such a waste of resources and mitigates a lot of the great things about Linux. Each to their own.
Yeah, go tell that to your company's IT department.
That's what WSL is used for: keeping developers somewhat sane in a company that's Windows-only.
I know plenty developers who run mostly in WSL just for the ease of having Word and such software on the same machine.
Yeah they're squares