Windows dropped new feature called "sudo"
I don't think i need to explain how it works, should i ?
I don't think i need to explain how it works, should i ?
Still Beans face is 99% of the reason for even using the meme. Without it the image just looks like two people sitting side by side instead of the cheating.
I'm not familiar with the meme, and it's still obvious one is copying the other. Although, it does make it look like Linux copying Windows rather than the path that reality took.
Yeah you have to already know that one person is obviously looking over at the others answers.
This has put me in mind of when OSX added virtual desktops. Everyone forgot that they've been a thing in *nix for 30 years, and NextOS (which OSX was built on top of) already had them. So Apple purposefully removed them, let people complain about not having them (and build their own 3rd party solutions) for something like 8 years, then got mountains of positive press for the "new innovation" of virtual desktops. Isn't Apple amazing!
Great job Microsoft! I'm sure this is a game changer for the world.
Ah MacOS, don't forget they're continuing to neuter root/sudo probably for some future goal of a walled garden desktop/laptop 🤮 for "privacy and security"
Apple may introduce it again, but not before they get some trademark word for it like "Secure Ascension(TM)".
To be honest, the first incarnation of Spaces was really damn good; they deserved some credit for that. Then they made it worse so it matches iOS.
Are they actually naming the command "sudo" or is that just a comparison?
Edit: apparently yes, the audacity lol
Looks like they didn't even tried to hide it : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/
The sudo command offers a way to quickly elevate a command as administrator from your current unelevated command line context and is familiar to some users coming from other operating systems.
What's wrong with giving a command the same name as the equivalent command from other operating systems?
Don't forget all the UI/UX they've been copying from KDE. Working at Microsoft must be such an easy job when the open source community does all your work for you.
A problem I have with the GPL is it allows corporations and shareholders to use software for free. I would be interested in licensing software I make for commercial use by sole proprietors and other small businesses for free, but charge truly offensive prices to entities that have "investors." Like, Bob's wood shop, where Bob, his son Rob, and Rob's friend from high school Jimmy make butcher block counter tops? They can use my software for free. Microsoft? $600 trillion per seat per minute.
How exactly do you want it? Publicly traded companiee can't use it? That would affect small companies too, but being publicly tradable is more likely to make an evil company in the end. Companies over a certain valuation? That would have problems with interest and private companies like valve not having to tell people their valuation. Mix of both is probably best.
I would probably list out a series of symptoms of large businesses that don't qualify for my non-corporate license.
That's probably a good start.
That's a pretty good list. I would say for 1 and 4 it should be in the past 50 years, to allow for companies to change. I would also add that anything the parent company or a company owned by the parent company that violates these rules also counts. Also, what is a "golden parachute"
A "golden parachute" is basically a clause in the contract of a CEO or other higher up where the company agrees to pay severance benefits. I don't have a problem with severance pay in general but some of these things are basically "No matter how much I embezzle and defraud, no matter how many people I kill, no matter how much damage I do, I get tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, to the degree of actually incentivizing getting hired and fired as much as possible.
Seriously. Yes.
If Microsoft doesn't have a secret internal build of Windows that runs on a Linux Kernel, they're out of their minds.
The Windows Kernel, as cool as it is, is 100% a cost center. If Microsoft switches (seemlessly) to a Linux kernel, no one would really notice. So at some point they should really switch it.
- they'll have to opensource the code if they use linux kernel
Only changes they would make to the kernel. There is no obligation to make an OS utilizing the linux kernel open source.
Legal question. If Windows on the linux kernal needs to open source, but that does not apply to other software it runs, right? So could they close source their DE and charge for that, or charge for the windows store?
That is correct. Microsoft could simply charge for their closed-source desktop environment or their package manager or their software environment in general, but any modifications to the kernel would need to be free and open-source (though they could still charge money for it).
even with linux being vastly superior, it nice we have 3 major kernels with widely different approaches. it would be sad if either of these 3 dies out
Agreed. I do think at least a couple versions of the Windows NT kernel are going to live on forever in emulation, thanks to some pretty awesome games that require it.
If Microsoft switches (seemlessly) to a Linux kernel, no one would really notice.
Besides quite literally every piece of software breaking, sure.
People are laughing, but it is annoying to open a Windows terminal, get a couple of steps into whatever you were doing, and find you need admin privileges for some bullshit.
Pressing up, home, "sudo " and enter is a lot quicker than opening a new command prompt in admin mode.
actually, powershell also has aliases for unix-like commands, for examplerm
. iirc you need rm -Force
tho
What parent is likely referencing
TBH I wonder if the current Microsoft is capable of executing that here. I don't believe in a "changed" MS, but Linux is eating the world, and MS doesn't really care about Windows much anymore. Azure happily runs Linux VMs
They can still take a stab at it 🤷. Why else would you actually add something like this... it makes no sense to me.
Maybe they're slowly working toward making Windows work on the Linux kernel in order to offload maintenance costs to the open source community... 👽🛸
I can't wait for their version to be totally broken compared to normal sudo on windows
Reverse engineer denuvo and other kernel-level anti-cheat gaming software and use those methods to write a real sudo command.
It's already been done, it's called PowerRun.
https://www.sordum.org/9416/powerrun-v1-6-run-with-highest-privileges/
Nothing special about it, it just runs everything you load into it as TrustedInstaller or SYSTEM.
I am Jack's extremely surprised brain 🤨.. I share Windows Update Blocker by the same company (well... sorta... I don't think they're a real company) and I constantly get backlash "it's not open source, god knows what it's doing in the background!", even though I have analyzed the binary (to an extent) and never noticed anything malicious about it (and I have shared this as well with the community). BUT, I share this (also closed source) and people thank me 🤨? WTF 🤨...
sudo can only be elevated via the User Account Control (UAC) security feature designed to protect the operating system from unauthorized changes using verification prompt.
lmao
Now get rid of those silly back slashes in paths, use bash as a non mentally deficient shell, change that sad kernel to Linux 6.8 and up, change your laughably sad NTFS to something sane, anything, even ext3 would do but take ext4, get rid of your ridiculous drive letters and instead of copying KDE, why don't you just switch to KDE on X or Wayland?
Do all that and make it open and free, like all other actual operating systems and we'll talk
I agree with everything but bash. Bash sucks I'm not going to lie, nearly anything else is better than bash
It's pretty archeic with it's syntax. A lot of its features have come about through feature creep. I mean it does a good job but it's just hard to work with and pretty cobbled together. It's showing it's age. If you've worked with any large bash scripts you'd understand how much of a pain it can be
only through private ownership of property and capitalist competition can good ideas emerge and be adopted
Drop can mean to release or to discontinue, some words have two meanings, which gets selected via context.
My favorite when reading sports news is "resign".
It can mean that they quit or that they entered into a new contract.
Hey I know it's a week later, but I rarely log in to Lemmy.
If you read the headline, it could be interpreted either way. The only way to know the actual meaning is if you already knew what the article was about, but if I knew nothing about windows, I could easily assume that it had a feature called 'sudo' which is now being dropped.
Supporting this kind of behavior is how we ended up with the word 'literally' meaning both literally and figuratively. Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Words can have multiple meanings, but If a word means one thing, but also the opposite of that thing, it adds unnecessary confusion. Not saying there aren't many other examples, but I think it's something we should try to avoid.