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12 pointsCrankyBear7 comments

WSL 2 is the real game changer.

I'm on an issue for WSL 1 where there's a nasty bug when dealing with a lot of files. The only way you can free up the file system is to restart. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2882

WSL 2 alleviates this file issue. There are some issues where daemons like postgres, mongo, etc. aren't started by default and sysctl.conf isn't respected. A manual command has to be ran.

Windows 10 is fast. It has amazing support for high resolution displays and multi-monitor that a light year ahead of anything Linux has unfortunately.

WSL also gives choice of distro. You get to use the stable packages instead of being stuck with a brew package that's broken.

The many linux distros are also great. What do you need windows for? I can't stand the windows 10 auto updates and monitoring that is a huge pain to turn off. Why don't people just use linux? Is there some dev tool on windows you really prefer?

I worked in WSL for a week. Then Microsoft decided to automatically reboot my system while I was sleeping. I lost a weeks worth of work.

WSL is cute but it is a toy. Microsoft doesn't value your work. Stick with a real linux distro. My linux boxes all have uptimes of hundreds of days, since our last full day power outage.

Props to the WSL team. They made such a nice toy.

I recently lost a weeks worth of work as well (due to a mistake at my vpc provider)

I resented them for causing me to lose my work, but deep down I knew the fault was mine for not having proper backups.

I am sorry for your loss... but if you're keeping unsaved data around for a week, you do rather have yourself to blame. I would never leave work at the end of a day without ensuring that all of the day's work is safely persisted to disk - there's no excuse for doing otherwise.

With Stallman's recent visit to Microsoft, I can't help but think that Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 would have been better named GNU / Windows.

With WSL 2, it is now GNU / Linux / Windows.

The subsystem was named after the thing it emulated the interfaces of not the software you can run inside of it (of which I wonder what % of the Ubuntu image is even GNU software anyways).

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