“Run Linux on Windows”
Really fascinating seeing this in an official Microsoft ad.
Really fascinating seeing this in an official Microsoft ad.
I'm using .NET on Ubuntu and it just works perfect. So as a Linux user I am now connected to the Microsoft ecosystem.
Balmer maybe made a fool of himself while dancing the 'developer developer developer', but he was right.
And at least they did WSL cleanly, meaning that they do not rely on proprietary extensions for e.g. Linux projects in VS but simply use ssh. Maybe Ballmer would have wanted to attempt a proprietary lock in (the extend part) -- I'm not sure this would have worked in the context I described, because one important source of the need is people working on remote systems which are real native Linux, so they needed standard things anyway.
(in before the Linux/GNU copy pasta)
In reality it's crap, no FUSE, some GUI programs simply don't run, upgrades can trash your install, sporadic development attention from Google, and my 2015 MBP is an order of magnitude faster (wish I'd sprung for the 16Gb version though).
The new MBP without a touchbar would be a great replacement but the Book 3 has caught my attention. Love to hear stories from Mac->Windows refugees.
WSL2 is basically a Linux VM on Hyper-V with some glue involved. It should be possible to make FUSE work there. I haven't really tried WSL2 yet.
You'll have to bring your own X server. I use VcXsrv.
The other benefit for us, is with the graphics work we do, and most of our users being on windows, in Chrome or Firefox, we're developing using the software our users are in, while developing in the same server environment our servers run on.
It was fidgety to get set-up the first time, but now, that we've got that sorted, it's quite nice.