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It’s a weird time as a developer when it’s now easier to install WSL2 on an enterprise machine and use that for development than it is to use an actually Unix based OS

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Linux runs mostly fine nowadays – I'd say the experience is smoother than with Windows, even. Have you tried it recently?

I think they were making a jab at Apple. Not saying they can’t run Unix.

Obligatory "linux isn't unix"

Personally, it always run fine at the beginning until it isnt and then you have to spend the rest of the day trying to figure out what is wrong. For desktop that is it, servers can just run 24/7 without problems (mine just run containers).

Plasma looks pretty good but is not nowhere as good as window's.

I heard that they fixed power management but haven't tried myself.

My last point is that hyper-v got soo good with GPU partitioning and can be fully managed using type-safe Powershell.

Last time I ran a Linux desktop, I had to reinstall my graphics drivers in a tty console every time I wanted to do a kernel upgrade, because the distro ones were ancient and that was the only way to get the latest from NVidia.

Until you realise that WSL2 is nothing but a Linux VM with some shoddily added sugar that completely breaks down as soon as real work demands handling encodings properly, opening windows at the end of a pipe, and all those other things that I regularly want do with a Unix like system. All of this works seamlessly on Linux or macOS, but Windows is still a pathetic shitshow, WSL2 or not.

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