{"id":289070,"date":"2026-07-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/i-installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-and-immediately-understood-why-it-exists\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:40:10","slug":"i-installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-and-immediately-understood-why-it-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/i-installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-and-immediately-understood-why-it-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"I installed Microsoft&#8217;s own Linux distro and immediately understood why it exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-immediately-understood-why-exists\/\">I installed Microsoft&#8217;s own Linux distro and immediately understood why it exists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-immediately-understood-why-exists\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-immediately-understood-why-exists\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 10:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Linux might seem like an odd combination at first \u2014 after all, Microsoft did have a rather terrible history of scaring away users from alternatives. That might have been in the past, though, as the barrier between Linux and Windows has slowly dissolved over time (not completely yet, though!).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was this weird experiment that kicked off Azure Linux, an open-source Linux distribution developed and maintained by Microsoft itself. It\u2019s based on Azure, Microsoft&#8217;s cloud computing service.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recently released a fully featured offline ISO installer for curious folks like me to try out. I ended up running it (with great difficulty) on a virtual machine, and here\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t really mean much for the general user.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tUsing Linux made me appreciate these 5 Windows features<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Using Linux reminded me how Windows quietly excels at drivers, settings, apps, and gaming without demanding constant tinkering.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"installing-azure-linux-4-0-in-a-virtual-machine\">\n                        Installing Azure Linux&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-immediately-understood-why-exists\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Microsoft&#8217;s own Linux distro and immediately understood why it exists https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-microsofts-own-linux-distro-immediately-understood-why-exists\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/azure-linux-page.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-289070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289072,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289070\/revisions\/289072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}