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Really depends on the sort of "windows-only" jobs you're thinking of.

My startup is mostly Windows, but that's because we're doing AAA game development and still have some tooling that is Windows only at this stage.

I find that with WSL2, I can do everything I need. A fair bit of my day is spent in emacs.

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Really depends on the sort of "windows-only" jobs you're thinking of.

I was hoping you were going to follow that up by saying you're working on a robot to clean vertical glass.

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This is probably just a personal thing, but that just defines which areas of our industry I probably don't want to work in. And WSL isn't helpful, because the goal for me isn't "run Linux", but "don't run Windows"; WSL won't save you from MS forcing updates down your throat, changing your browser to edge, spying on you, and sticking ads all over the system.

> WSL won't save you from MS forcing updates down your throat

There was only one corporate laptop running windows 10 I've encountered during the pandemic that does not use policy to disable automatic updates and that is Microsoft. In my experience, everyone who pays for Windows Enterprise blocks automatic updates.

I think Windows Home still can't into Hyper-V and therefore you have to go through hoops to install WSL 2 and docker, right?

Windows Home doesn't haven proper access to Hyper-V, but installing WSL 2 is relatively easy (and documented); Microsoft made special provisions for that. You can't use Docker to run Windows containers, but Linux containers (using WSL 2) seems to work fine.

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