Oh no, Linux users are jealous that Windows is the best distro out there!
Anyways...
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What if... WSL is a gateway drug to Arch?
Don't do drugs, kids!
Born to Gentoo+i3, forced (by work) to WSL
WSL is just a chroot running under Windows.
"WSL"?
Windows subsystem for linux.
Its basically a microsoft linux kernel, running in a hypervisor, with a linux distro built on top. The subsystem also supports xserver and wayland too
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
I think that sounds more like Cygwin.
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Itβs so true though
I even look at myself that way whenever I use wsl on my gaming box to hop onto another system. I disgust myself.
When someone ask for help with a Linux issue: π€©
It's a wsl bug: π€
Me looking disgusted at myself in the mirror, for I am doomed towards eternal Microsoft-dependency at work.
Still better than cygwin
And msys
God I remember suffering through cygwin at a VB shop back in '17β¦ literal hell
Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.
WSL is cool when you first use it then you realize it actually kind of sucks
Why not just use both?
Install Windows in a VM on a Linux distro and use WSL there?
Wsl runs on hyper-v. I don't think you can use it in a VM
When using WSL, be sure to not mention anything about that when reporting bugs because that'll just confuse the issue for the maintainers. They like having that casually mentioned about 20 messages into the troubleshooting process.
Pff, issue reports should ask for the output of 'uname -ar'. It clearly shows its wsl as wsl runs a special kernel
I'm a big fan of going on WSL forums and letting them know everything is working well for give or take 20 messages, then I let them know I need help troubleshooting.