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Well, my Ubuntu with https://vscodium.com/ is certainly much better for web development than fucking windows. I boot windows only for gaming. I detest their spyware adware OS. Furthermore, I detest "99% open source with 1% bullshit on top of it" products like Chrome and VScode. I will never use the official versions of such programs. I use Brave to use Blink/Chromium, it also has the benefit of not suffering from the v3 manifest bullshit they pulled to attack and weaken Adblockers.

WSL is cool and all, but why deal with all the quirks and issue that come with it, why learn how it works and all the limitations ... when you can just have it all natively the way it was invented and supposed to work?

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What quirks and issues have you run into with WSL? I use WSL2 and since it’s Ubuntu running under the Microsoft hypervisor, it feels pretty native to me. I believe Windows itself is also running under the hypervisor.

WSL2 has memory issues, if you for example use vscode and docker, in a wsl context, and don’t restart your machine weekly, you will likely see that vmmem is using a ridiculous amount of memory and doesn’t release it.

The relatively recent auto-shrinking volumes are also not always working in my experience.

I’ve also experienced networking issues in the past, either names wouldn’t resolve for some time, or hosts would be unreachable. If you look around you will find multiple GitHub issues for it.

I’ve been a heavy user of WSL 1 and 2 since a while now, it’s a fantastic system, but you will likely notice issues over time. Still worth it IMHO.

because some of us have computers which have been designed to work with Windows and just Windows.

Can you be more specific what computers do not work with Linux? And WHY do you have such a computer?

Anything corporate IT provides. It isn't a technical issue.

Interesting how you detest something so much, yet still use it.

Well I like what Valve is doing with Proton, but all the fiddling around and the fact that Proton was designed ONLY for Steam games and does not really play well with other games SUCKS! Lutris has their WINE + DXVK and stuff and removed Proton as a runtime for this reason. There still is no good one-stop shop that "just works TM" for games on Linux.

And I like to play AAA games and would, lose performance in many cases on Linux, so I happily bite the sour apple to play the latest games easy and fast without any issues.

The gaming industry is so heavily focused on DX12 instead of natively building for Vulkan for some reason, even though this matter less and less with Wine/Proton getting better and better. It still makes more sense to me to just boot up Windows 11. It's a dream for me to one day delete my windows partition, and I think it will actually happen in my lifetime, just not in 2024.

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