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The thing is 99% of what I get elsewhere does actually work properly. Microsoft are just excessively bad at this.
Wow, you're quite lucky, because everything I use has bugs and edge cases.
> Mind that I come from a Ubuntu distro, Windows is the most energy efficient solution at the moment and allows me to run my Dev tools and work on battery for 4 hours straight. Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro) destroy my battery in 40 minutes and there's no solution or optimization for that. I know this is not a solution, but the Librem laptops from Purism hold up for hours straight. I also used to run Windows on…
I think calling it WSL2 was a mistake. The predecessor, WSL, "just worked" and it was more a less a linux experience for most practical purposes-- and certainly better than hoary old cygwin. This caused a lot of people to believe they could just transition to WSL2, lead on by the promise of an even more performant linux experience. The documentation didn't say anything about complications from attempting this, so a l…
I don't think calling it WSL2 was a mistake. It wasn't something that was good for the users, but it had a very clear benefit for the people working on WSL: calling it WSL2 allowed them to close WSL1 issues en masse as "fixed in WSL2" and never look at them again.
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This is data loss. A few object files in the Git directory are truncated. Which results in a corrupted repository, from Git's point of view.
That’s corruption. Data loss would indicate an entire fs transaction getting dropped entirely - but not breaking the principle of atomic ops. A write should either happen entirely or not at all.
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What is inadequate about Libre Office ?
Calc is really not an adequate substitute for Excel if you need to use VBA macros - which might be coming from your customers! And in the wild I see plenty of older Excel documents (before 97) which I don’t think are compatible with LibreOffice. Obviously this isn’t an ideal situation but historical data around prices/etc from the 90s are often stored as old Excel binaries. In general I think using Calc (or Google Sh…
> Feel like booting Linux on a separate disk because of these issues. It always seemed strange to me that people would rather use WSL than the real thing when Windows doesn't bring much advantage. What am I missing ?
You are missing Office, Outlook, Visual Studio, and any enterprise nonsense IT requires on company computers. All of that requires Windows.
tl;dr WSL2 bash is not bash but it pretends to be and there are terrifying changes to the semantics of bash scripts as a result.
> Feel like booting Linux on a separate disk because of these issues. It always seemed strange to me that people would rather use WSL than the real thing when Windows doesn't bring much advantage. What am I missing ?