Microsoft finally admitted Linux won, and Coreutils for Windows proves it
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Microsoft announced Coreutils for Windows at Build 2026, bringing over 75 Unix-style command-line tools (ls, cp, mv, grep, find, etc.) as native Windows binaries installable via a single WinGet command. Built on uutils, a Rust rewrite of GNU Coreutils, the package requires no WSL or virtual machine and outperforms WSL counterparts on commands like grep and find by bypassing kernel overhead. Some tools like chmod and chown were excluded due to Windows' different permissions model. The author frames this as Microsoft implicitly conceding that developers prefer Linux tooling, marking a dramatic reversal from the company's historical opposition to Linux.
