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I think WSL will get there eventually but in its current state it's just more tedious to use for permissions/networking/compatability issues. Mostly things you can work around but just a bit more tinkering

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(disclosure I work for Microsoft but not on this stuff)

Biggest benefit for me has been how simple it has made ssh on Windows. I got a nicer spec'd Surface Laptop 3 during my last hardware refresh and haven't missed Macbook at all.

Confusing. Do you mean as an ssh server? Because there is no functional difference between Cygwin ssh client running in mintty vs WSL (1 or 2, doesn't matter) ssh running in wsltty. I think if I sat you down in front of them and switched them out you wouldn't notice a thing.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

I think he's referring to the SSH integration inside VS code so you can open up a remote folder as if it was a local one in the IDE

Maybe this isn’t what you mean, but Microsoft shipping OpenSSH client/server in W10 is totally separate from WSL. (It’s really helpful though!)

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh I think he's referring to the SSH integration inside VS code so you can open up a remote folder as if it was a local one in the IDE

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