Azure Linux Desktop
haydenbarnes
70 points
47 comments
June 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
leoncos
Great work! I really hope it can be designed to be agent-friendly. The current CodeX/Claude code sandbox functionality is very limited; it would be wonderful to use this as a sandbox.
baq
The year of the Linux desktop. Meanwhile I’m stuck on macOS for work. Oh the irony.
bpavuk
I am more excited about WinUI Reactor than anything else. the gap between Compose/React thinking and XAML thinking is enormous, and Reactor just bridges it. I am curious about interoperability - how would one include a Reactor-based component into existing WinUI 3 app? how would one include a XAML-based control from some other library into a (future) modern WinUI Reactor app?
neogodless
More on Azure Linux 4.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499 Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (boxofcables.dev) 1 day ago | 143 comments
cryo32
That’ll be deprecated in 6 months. Nope.
sublimefire
Even within MS Azure Linux is at odds because it is not working in WSL out of the box. Folks had to port stuff to AZL away from ubuntu but without an easy path to use WSL to continue development. Sure you could adopt it but there is something fundamentally fragmented if such an adoption vector is missing in WSL. Now this… why do I need AZL desktop?
dzonga
someone once said - windows will die or will be killed by Microsoft - when they start pushing a windows flavored linux distro. with all the arm chips coming into consumer hardware - seems we are about to be there.
abc123abc123
Microsoft Linux... what an abomination. But each generation has to learn the lessons of the previous one, again and again. Have fun with the lock-in and e.e.e. Microsoft-fans!
AshamedCaptain
Bluecurve? Is this some type of delayed April Fools?
embedding-shape
> It is a general purpose server and container distribution. My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499 ) from the very same author got it wrong both times? Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribution"?