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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by rfoo »

oxalorg wrote: post #269

I've been a happy user of WSL2 since 2 months, and I absolutely love it. After switching to it, I completely stopped using Mac Mini and Linux. It has made my life so easier. All the Linux stuff + development work gets done inside Windows Terminal + WSL2 + NeoVim, and I still get to keep Windows for Gaming, Designing, Office work, other random programs etc.

I've been a happy user of running a Linux VM (without X) besides Windows since 6 years ago (first VirtualBox, then Hyper-V after switching to Win10) :p

Congrats to WSL2 team, they introduced this pattern to a much wider audience.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

quotemstr wrote: post #192
hamandcheese wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Boring tech is good tech :)

"Boring tech is good tech" is what stagnant companies say to distract people from how they're not innovating.

Companies that stay in the game actually.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by MikusR »

afraca wrote: post #203
sdegutis wrote: post #37

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes

> WSL 2 will be available on all SKUs where WSL is currently available, including Windows 10 Home. > The newest version of WSL uses Hyper-V architecture to enable its virtualization. This architecture will be available in the 'Virtual Machine Platform' optional component. This optional component will be available on all SKUs. I don't really grok this, does this mean Hyper-V will be available on Windows 10 Home? That'…

Home will have only the parts necessary to run wsl2.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

rfoo wrote: post #271
oxalorg wrote: post #269

I've been a happy user of WSL2 since 2 months, and I absolutely love it. After switching to it, I completely stopped using Mac Mini and Linux. It has made my life so easier. All the Linux stuff + development work gets done inside Windows Terminal + WSL2 + NeoVim, and I still get to keep Windows for Gaming, Designing, Office work, other random programs etc.

I've been a happy user of running a Linux VM (without X) besides Windows since 6 years ago (first VirtualBox, then Hyper-V after switching to Win10) :p Congrats to WSL2 team, they introduced this pattern to a much wider audience.

That is also the way I let go of dual booting.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

_bxg1 wrote: post #99
rozab wrote: post #90

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The electron hate really is getting old. vscode and some other electron apps run far faster than many comparable programs with a more traditional architecture. Yes electron could be considered inelegant, but so can a great many things in computing. If it works, we should use it.

Yep. If anything, "old-school" Visual Studio is the one that feels bloated by comparison, despite being a native app. Software quality cannot be reduced to the choice of language or framework.

It kind of is, then again VSCode doesn't do even half of VS is capable of.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

smitty1e wrote: post #254

Windows seems to be gradually trending toward an OSX-style desktop experience riding on top of a Linux kernel.

Except it isn't, that Linux kernel runs on top of a Hyper-V instance, alongside the NT kernel which is managing the whole show.

More z/OS and less UNIX.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

FpUser wrote: post #128
m0zg wrote: post #51

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They mean MS replacing the Windows kernel with Linux kernel. Which doesn't sound as crazy as it did just a couple of years ago. Just put all the Windows crap in a VM, similar to WSL2.

"Just put all the Windows crap in a VM" - if Windows such a crap why even mention it? Just put Linux on your PC and be happy.

Still waiting for the Linux desktop wonders to take over that crap.

Apparently Windows XP was going to do that, then it was Vista with its DX 10 drivers, then WinRT, then Win10,....

It takes time to replace the crap apparently.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by pjmlp »

kyriakos wrote: post #264
pjmlp wrote: post #170

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Web development with node and ruby it seems. Java and .NET Web development has been perfectly fine the last decades.

Node, PHP, anything Docker all seem to work better under WSL2 than windows itself.

Node and PHP has been running in Windows just fine for years everytime I have to deal with them.

Also node is not going to stop downloading the whole Internet regardless of the host OS.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

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Post by spdy »

ahupp wrote: post #7

I switched to WSL2 a month ago and it's been great. With WSL1 I'd regularly run into subtle compatibility problems but haven't seen anything like that with 2. Despite a handful of annoyances, the Win10+WSL2+Visual Studio Code Dev environment has been a lot more pleasant than OSX.

Did the same. Just that i use emacs with x410. Only gripe I have at the moment that docker eats up a lot of memory. But everything else works perfectly fine. Was quite surprised and happy.
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